Researchers at Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems and Tsinghua University recently developed a new multi-receptor skin inspired by the sensory abilities of the platypus, an intriguing ...

Scratching the itch of eczema, researchers have identified the serotonin receptor ... model of eczema, loss of the HTR7 gene in mice led to significantly less scratching and less severe skin ...

So the skin receptors dial up the signal when the sock ... While humans' skin and nervous systems may be the model for electronic equivalents, the biological model only goes so far.

Recent research showed that the aryl hydrocarbon receptor plays an important role in the protective function of the gut and the skin. The IUF showed in a mouse model that the absence of the aryl ...

Researchers have demonstrated the existence of an olfactory receptor in pigment-producing cells in human skin, the so-called melanocytes. They have shown that the violet-like scent Beta-Ionone can ...

With skin cancer and photoaging, identification of higher risk individuals may significantly improve health outcomes by providing the opportunity for earlier detection and intervention.

S. aureus. Using this knowledge, the team tried blocking different skin receptors to see which one was responding to the ...