Skin models

A crucial role for glucose metabolism has been identified in wound repair and in the pathogenesis of chronic inflammatory skin diseases, indicating that targeting metabolism is an approach for treating psoriasis.

Topically applied spherical nucleic acids targeting an intracellular mRNA biomarker associated with abnormal scarring enable the fluorescent detection of abnormal scars during wound healing.

M. Bishr Omary reminds us of the three articles that first uncovered a causative link between mutations in intermediate filaments (specifically, keratin 14) and human diseases.