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 ...

Employing a chemical reprogramming strategy to convert human epidermal keratinocytes into expandable sweat gland cells using six specific chemicals. Upon transplantation into damaged skin tissues in a ...

Foot odor isn’t caused by sweat itself—it’s caused by what happens after sweat appears. Your feet contain some of the highest ...

Sweating helps your body regulate temperature, but it’s a function that many people don’t seem to be fond of based on the number of antiperspirants and anti-sweat treatments on the market. “When ...

A group of scientists in Israel has discovered that human sweat glands act like tiny antennas, and could in principle be used to remotely monitor a person’s emotions. This is because the emission of ...

SWEAT collected from normal male subjects carrying out work at high temperatures and humidities was analysed for chloride, lactic acid and urea. The osmotic pressure, as estimated by the freezing ...