Protein-based biomaterial mimics skin
Image courtesy of Nasim Annabi, Brigham and Women's Hospital. Researchers from the biomedical engineering division at Brigham and...
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Derm City
Dec 11, 20152 min read
Skin cells switch between two modes for wound healing
Primary human keratinocytes appear able to switch back and forth between two reproductive modes, changing from a balanced mode where the...
Derm City
Dec 9, 20151 min read
Children with AD have increased risk of cardiovascular disease
Children with allergic disease—asthma, hay fever, and atopic dermatitis (AD)—have about twice the rate of high blood pressure and high...
Derm City
Dec 4, 20152 min read
New drug class may help fight treatment-resistant staph infections
Researchers from Georgia State University in Atlanta have developed a small-molecule analogue drug that appears to both reduce toxin...
Derm City
Nov 27, 20152 min read
Tolerance to harmless skin bacteria develops soon after birth
Research from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) has found that the adaptive immune system’s tolerance to the commensal...
Derm City
Nov 26, 20152 min read
What happens to skin when it’s stretched?
Researchers found that after women give birth, striae gravidarum (SG) (stretch marks) result if the dermal elastic fiber network gets...
Derm City
Nov 20, 20151 min read
Patients should get their vitamin-D from the sun at noon to reduce cancer risk
The best time of day to take in sunshine to produce vitamin D, while minimizing the risk of cancer, is noon, according to Norwegian...
Derm City
Nov 18, 20152 min read
Melanoma's genetic trajectories: research provides clearer picture
An international team of researchers has mapped out the genetic trajectories taken by melanoma as it evolves from precursors to malignant...
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