Keratin is often marketed as a cosmetic miracle, but its real importance goes far beyond shiny hair or smoother skin. This ...

A gel of tiny keratin spheres has been found to promote hair follicle growth. Given that our bodies naturally produce keratin, the research highlights the potential application of using keratin ...

Robyn Williams: Dr George Dias from the University of Otago in New Zealand has decided to look for new ways to provide bones for orthopaedic surgery from fingernails or wool? Imagine getting your ...

A team of materials scientists from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, the University of Milano-Bicocca, and Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia via Morego, all in Italy, has found a way to use keratin to ...

RALEIGH, N.C., Nov. 21 (UPI) --Keratin and melanosomes can remain preserved and later identified in fossilized tissue. The revelation comes thanks to the discovery of an ancient bird fossil, a 130 ...

When you think of all the human hair that gets cut off and discarded every day in salons around the world … well, that's a lot of wasted hair. That said, scientists in India have devised a new ...

Researchers at Mossakowski Medical Research Center of the Polish Academy of Science have developed a simple method for preparing 3D keratin scaffold models which can be used to study the regeneration ...

Nagoya University research identified a patient with the whole-body skin disease epidermolytic ichthyosis that had been inherited as a germline mutation from her father with the milder epidermolytic ...