Now, US researchers have discovered that the epithelial cells that line our skin and organs are able to signal the same way ...

Its three layers of tactile sensors, inspired by the layers of human skin, allow it to grasp and distinguish objects of various shapes and surface textures, rather than just detect touch. Each of its ...

Furthermore, a one-millimetre-thick hydrogel contains 10,000 layers of nanosheets, which makes the material as stiff as human skin, and gives it a comparable degree of stretch and flexibility.

More recently, studies have investigated adhesins for human keratinocytes and their ... different patterns of colonization to skin epithelial layers, which may contribute to long-term colonization.