Researchers at the University of Arizona say a previously unknown population of circulating immune cells play a critical role ...

Researchers at Stanford believe they may be on the trail of a drug that could allow the skin to heal without scars. For millions of Americans, scars are a fact of life. But for more than three decades ...

Scars are a normal part of life — for now, anyway. In the future, that might not be the case, as researchers have developed a method to eliminate scarring by prompting wounds to heal as normal skin ...

We all stand the risk of accumulating scars throughout our lifetimes, but curiously, in old age, the likelihood that a wound will leave a thick, ugly scar is much reduced. How older skin is advantaged ...

Scars come in all shapes, sizes and colors and are the result of the skin's natural healing process after damage, whether it's caused by surgery, infection, injury or rapid body growth. Scars serve an ...

Unlike normal skin, scar tissue doesn't contain any hair follicles. New research now indicates that when such follicles are transplanted into scar tissue, that tissue changes to become much more like ...

Scar revision is a broad term that’s used to describe techniques that minimize or improve the appearance of scars. Simply put, scars are growths of fibrous tissue that form as part of your body’s ...

Researchers have discovered a rare example in which the mammalian body functions better in old age. A team has found that, in skin wounds in mice, being older increased tissue regeneration and ...

There are a couple of reasons that scar tissue looks different than regular skin – it lacks hair follicles, and it has no fat cells. Recently, though, scientists from the University of Pennsylvania ...

Throughout our lives, we encounter all sorts of scars.