Special skin cells get pigments

Skin Pigments with Technological Potential

Skin Stem Cells

The future development of medicine will greatly depend on research, knowledge and clinical application of stem cells. In recent years, stem cells especially; skin stem cells have been very interesting and amazing targets for study and scientific application in the following fields : 1- Cell-based therapy; 2- Regenerative medicine and tissue engineering; 3- Gene therapy; 4- Therapeutic cloning; ...

Self-organizing spots get under your skin

Sixty-five years after Turing first revealed the potential of systems with local activation and long-range inhibition to generate pattern, we have only recently begun to identify the biological elements that operate at many scales to generate periodic patterns in nature. In this Primer, we first review the theoretical framework provided by Turing, Meinhardt, and others that suggests how periodi...

Don't get burned coding common skin procedures.

S kin procedures are among the most complicated services that family physicians have to code. Many who otherwise do their own coding prefer to delegate this job to someone else. But even if someone else is doing your coding, you have to know the rules, use the correct terminology and pay attention to detail to ensure that your documentation leads your coding staff to the correct code. Remember:...

Tumor cells get primitive

Tumor cells get primitive hen metastatic tumor cells migrate through connective tissue, they use proteases to chew a path for themselves. This finding led to the development of protease inhibitors as potential cancer therapies, but some animal and human clinical tests of these drugs have been disappointing. Wolf et al., reporting on page 267, may have found one reason why: when proteolysis is i...