Even through Zoom, I could tell she was unraveling. Her face was drawn, her shoulders hunched, her eyes darting just off-camera like she was bracing for bad news. She told me the incisions from her ...

As a society, we have made almost unimaginable strides in our diagnosis, treatment and eradication of diseases around the world. But though modern scientific understanding and technological ...

Our skin protects us from everyday mechanical stresses, like friction, cuts, and impacts. A key part of this function—standing as a bulwark against the outside world—is the skin's amazing ability to ...