Challenging the long-standing belief that fibroblasts produce skin collagen, researchers have investigated collagen formation in the 'glass-skinned' amphibian axolotl and other vertebrates. They ...

Although outer-layer skin cells have been grown in laboratories ... the first hair follicles were observed on the surface along with some associated tissues such as sebaceous glands, nerves ...

Albers would like to know how these tunnels entwine with skin cells as they migrate from the base layer to the skin surface. She also wondered if nerve fibers tunnel into other cell types found in ...