Confocal microscopy articles from across Nature Portfolio Confocal microscopy is an optical imaging technique that scans a focused point of light around a sample to reconstruct an image in a point ...

Researchers from several institutions in Brazil developed an enhanced protocol for extracting and analyzing proteins from human skin, combining chemical and mechanical lysis, SP3 sample preparation, ...

Vitamin C prevents age-related thinning of the skin by switching on genes that promote skin cell growth, a new study has found.The research, published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, ...

The hair follicle is a major repository for epidermal stem cells. Learning more about the processes that regulate the differentiation of these cells will improve the prospects for skin replacement ...