Oct 20, 2012 | Mayo Clinic
Ichthyosis vulgaris is an inherited skin disorder in which dead skin cells accumulate in thick, dry scales on your skin's surface.
An RSS Daily News Feed from FeedForAll
In the autumn of 2005, Alan Irvine, a dermatologist at Trinity College Dublin, noticed something unusual about a cohort of patients with ichthyosis vulgaris — a dry, scaly skin disease.
How a mutation in a skin protein revealed a link between eczema and asthma. Greg Betza It was a tense Friday afternoon in October 2005.