Community groups are opposing proposals to expand the decades-old Cross Bronx Expressway in favor of more limited repairs and improvements to local streets.

Acne scars rarely disappear quietly. Long after breakouts have healed, they can still catch the light at certain angles, ...

Researchers uncover a redox-regulated mechanism that determines whether bone fractures heal or progress to nonunion ...

Researchers have built a realistic human mini spinal cord in the lab and used it to simulate traumatic injury. The model reproduced key damage seen in real spinal cord injuries, including inflammation ...

A surprisingly small detail in the skin may play an outsized role in how young skin looks and how well it repairs scars. Researchers say the clue is a microscopic structure found in humans, pigs, and ...

Neurites include axons, which are often severed during spinal cord injuries. When axons are cut, communication between neurons is disrupted, leading to paralysis and loss of sensation below the injury ...

UC labs are developing new treatments that don’t just prevent damage from getting worse, but — for the first time in medical ...

Piercing bumps are small scars that appear right at the site of the piercing and might go away on their own. Keloids are larger scars that can spread beyond the original injury and won't disappear ...

Tweaking a pattern of wound healing established millions of years ago may enable scar-free injury repair after surgery or trauma, Stanford Medicine researchers have found. If results from their study, ...

Think back to the last time you broke a dish. What did you do? In today’s throw-away culture, you more than likely tossed it out and got a new one. However, the Japanese have a unique approach to ...