Eccrine Sweat Glands Play Role in Human Wound Repair Eccrine sweat glands, the most abundant appendage in human skin, unique to some primates, play a role in wound repair. (HealthDay News) – Eccrine ...

We've all felt it: At first comes the trickle, and then the flood. It's embarrassed us, and even torpedoed a presidential campaign. But when was the last time you were grateful for … sweat? Many are ...

Sweating during exercise is a natural physiological process, but that doesn’t stop people worrying about it – here’s what you ...

Scientists have discovered the signaling pathways that help hair follicles and sweat glands form during development, and identified the mechanism that allows both of these features to coexist in human ...

Queensland researchers have become the first in Australia to use human stem cells to generate fully functioning skin tissue in a laboratory, a significant step toward better treatments for severe ...

"It could have been SO much worse," says Sarah Everts, the author of a new book called The Joy of Sweat, that is all about, you guessed it, the science of sweating. Turns out human sweat — our body's ...

As early humans shed the hairy coats of their closest evolutionary ancestors, they also gained a distinct feature that would prove critical to their success: a type of sweat gland that allows the body ...

Humans have up to four million sweat glands distributed over the body. Approximately three million of these are eccrine sweat glands. Eccrine glands secrete an odorless, clear fluid that serves to aid ...

People with hyperhidrosis are at greater risk of dehydration due to the amount of fluid a person loses when they sweat – up ...

Are we almost at the time that it will be challenging to distinguish robots from humans? It seems like we're on the way there. Scientists at the University of Tokyo in Japan conducted a study that ...