Tag Archive for 'Dermis'

This deep-sea dragonfish Idiacanthus sp. has ultra-black skin capable of absorbing the bioluminescent light that might blow its cover. Image credit: Karen Osborn, Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.

Biologists Identify 16 Deep-Sea Fish Species with Ultra-Black Camouflage

Jul 16, 2020 by News Staff

In a paper published today in the journal Current Biology, a team of marine biologists from the United States and the United Kingdom investigated the distribution...

Dr. Koehler and co-authors describe a deﬁned in vitro 3D culture system that generates skin organoids from mouse pluripotent stem cells. The skin organoids contain self-organized skin layers and skin appendages, including hair follicles, sebaceous glands, and adipocytes. Image credit: Lee et al, doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.12.007.

Researchers Use Mouse Pluripotent Stem Cells to Grow Hairy Skin

Jan 3, 2018 by News Staff

A process using pluripotent stem cells from mice can generate skin tissue complete with hair follicles, according to a team of researchers from the Indiana...