Milia can be triggered by anything that interferes with the skin’s natural exfoliation process, like heavy creams or makeup, ...

Not all zombie skin cells are the same. New research reveals three unique subtypes with different roles in aging and disease, ...

Dermatofibromas develop when excess cells collect in the thickest layer ... Anyone concerned about a hard lump under their skin should see a doctor for a diagnosis. Hard lumps are often nothing ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Your skin is crawling with zombies. Zombie skin cells, that is. This sci-fi sounding term is used to describe senescent skin ...

Senescent skin cells, often referred to as zombie cells because they have outlived their usefulness without ever quite dying, have existed in the human body as a seeming paradox, causing inflammation ...

Exfoliation removes dead skin cells and makes your skin glow. But doing too much or too less can have a negative impact on skin texture.

Demodex mites are tiny eight-legged parasites that mostly live in hair follicles and oil glands on your face, neck, or chest. As alarming as this may sound, they’re generally harmless.

Researchers extracted fibroblasts—cells that produce the scaffolding to give tissues their structure— associated with skin tissue and pushed them toward senescence by damaging their DNA ...

But within a cell type, senescent cells are often considered the same -- in essence, skin cells are either senescent or not, for example," said Jude Phillip, an assistant professor of biomedical ...