A research team based at the University of Chicago has overcome challenges that have limited gene therapy and demonstrated how their novel approach with skin transplantation could enable a wide range ...

Incidence of skin cancer after organ transplant surgery is common, and significant risk factors include older age, being white and being male, according to a study published in JAMA Dermatology.

Last year, in a lab in Japan, a mouse grew hair. That may not sound like much of an accomplishment for a mouse, but it was an extraordinary feat for the scientists watching it. For the first time, ...

A new study from Drexel University College of Medicine suggests all organ transplant recipients, regardless of race, should receive routine, total-body screenings for skin cancer. Out of 259 nonwhite ...

A 'humanized' mouse model equipped with the immune system of a patient who needs an organ transplant beats current measures for identifying the best potential living donor, scientists report. A ...

The study's goal was to clarify possible second and third skin cancer development patterns among organ transplant recipients who developed more than 1 instance of skin cancer and to better ...