Skincare

Aug 05 2022

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Sponge-like electrodes inspired by sugar cubes could improve medical monitoring

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To monitor heart rhythms and muscle function, doctors often attach electrodes to a patient’s skin, detecting the electrical signals that lie beneath. These impulses are vital to the early diagnosis...

Aug 04 2022

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Scientists identify key mechanism controlling skin regeneration

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The outer layer of skin, the epidermis, is constantly turning over to replace dead or damaged cells throughout our lifetime. Skin stem cells need to continuously make decisions: either make...

Jul 26 2022

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The chemical controlling life and death in hair follicles

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A single chemical is key to controlling when hair follicle cells divide, and when they die. This discovery could not only treat baldness, but ultimately speed wound healing because follicles...

Jul 21 2022

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Melanoma thickness equally hard for algorithms and dermatologists to judge

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Assessing the thickness of melanoma is difficult, whether done by an experienced dermatologist or a well-trained machine-learning algorithm. A study shows that the algorithm and the dermatologists had an equal...

Jul 21 2022

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Tissue nanotransfection technology proves useful in non-viral topical gene editing to close complex cutaneous wounds

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New research demonstrates that tissue nanotransfection can serve as a non-viral, topical, gene-editing delivery device.

Jul 17 2022

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Study reveals new mode of triggering immune responses

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Small proteins, called chemokines, that direct immune cells toward sites of infection can also form DNA-bound nanoparticles that can induce chronic, dysfunctional immune responses, according to a new study. The...

Jul 15 2022

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Bacteria in donor organs complicate immune response after transplantation

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Organ transplant recipients take life-long immunosuppressive drugs to prevent their bodies from mounting an immune response against the donated organ, yet a substantial number of them still reject the organs....

Jul 15 2022

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Scientists find primitive blueprint for embryo cell creation

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A groundbreaking study has uncovered 14,000 unique sites in DNA that together form the most elementary blueprint for embryogenesis — the creation of embryos.

Jul 15 2022

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Simple skin biopsy can assess tissue damage related to COVID-19

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A minimally invasive test was able to identify pathology in patients at different stages of disease and potentially enable earlier intervention, researchers report.

Jul 15 2022

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Take the burn out of sunscreen testing: Experts

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Exposing humans to ultraviolet radiation to test sunscreen effectiveness should be phased out, according to scientists and cancer experts.