News tagged with skin pigmentation
Skin color clue to nicotine dependence
May 08, 2009 |
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Higher concentrations of melanin -- the color pigment in skin and hair -- may be placing darker pigmented smokers at increased susceptibility to nicotine dependence and tobacco-related carcinogens than lighter skinned smokers, ...
Gene required for radiation-induced protective pigmentation also promotes survival of melanoma cells
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Nov 20, 2008 |
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Scientists have new insight into the response of human skin to radiation and what drives the most aggressive and deadly form of skin cancer. The research, published by Cell Press in the November 21st issue of the journal ...
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New findings on the formation of body pigment
Oct 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The skin's pigment cells can be formed from completely different cells than has hitherto been thought, a new study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet shows. The results, which are published ...
Sun-damaged skin does not improve with estrogen treatments
Sep 15, 2008 |
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Treating the skin with estrogen can stimulate collagen production—which improves the appearance of the skin—in areas not typically exposed to the sun, according to new research from the University of Michigan Health System.
UT Southwestern plastic surgeons deploy new carbon dioxide-based fractional laser
Feb 13, 2008 |
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UT Southwestern Medical Center plastic surgeons are among a handful in the nation deploying a new type of laser that goes deeper into the skin to help reduce wrinkles, tighten surface structures and treat ...
Carbon dioxide laser resurfacing may reduce wrinkles over long term
Jul 21, 2008 |
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Carbon dioxide laser resurfacing appears to be an effective long-term treatment for facial wrinkles, according to a report in the July/August issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery.
Same genetic machinery generates skin color evolution in fish and humans
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Dec 13, 2007 |
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When humans began to migrate out of Africa about 100,000 years ago, their skin color gradually changed to adapt to their new environments. And when the last Ice Age ended about 10,000 years ago, marine ancestors of ocean-dwelling ...
New research finds way to restore colour to white hair following illness
Nov 13, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered a way to potentially restore colour to white hair, new research in the British Journal of Dermatology reveals this month.
Scientists discover important beauty secret for balanced skin color and tone
Aug 22, 2007 |
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In the timeless quest for healthier, younger looking skin, scientists from the University of Cincinnati and Tokyo Medical University have made an important discovery toward manipulating skin tone and color.
Ancient DNA reveals that some Neanderthals were redheads
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Oct 25, 2007 |
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Ancient DNA retrieved from the bones of two Neanderthals suggests that at least some of them had red hair and pale skin, scientists report this week in the journal Science. The international team says that N ...
Tanning may be associated with moles in very light-skinned children
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Very-light-skinned children without red hair who tan appear to develop more nevi (birthmarks, moles or other colored spots on the skin) than children who do not tan, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of ...
Exposure to sunlight may decrease risk of advanced breast cancer by half
Oct 18, 2007 |
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A research team from the Northern California Cancer Center, the University of Southern California, and Wake Forest University School of Medicine has found that increased exposure to sunlight – which increases levels of vitamin ...
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