Melanoma’s ‘safe haven’ targeted for shut-down
Melanoma cells become drug resistant by using surrounding healthy cells to provide a 'safe haven' from treatment, according to new research published in Cancer Cell.
Monthly Archives: April 2015
Enzyme in cosmetic products can act as allergen via the skin
Papain is an important industrial protein-degrading enzyme that is used, for example, in the food and cosmetic industries.
Plucking hairs could help treat baldness, study finds
Researchers found plucking 200 hairs from the back of a mouse led to the growth of up to 1,300 new ones. Could they have come across a potential cure for baldness?
Delay of surgery for melanoma common among Medicare patients
In a study that included more than 32,000 cases of melanoma among Medicare patients, approximately 1 in 5 experienced a delay of surgery that was longer than 1.
A downward trend for new cases of pediatric melanoma
Melanoma is an aggressive form of skin cancer that has been increasing in incidence in adults over the past 40 years.
Time to announce UV tanning ’causes’ skin cancer, doctors urge
In 1964, the US Surgeon General announced that smoking caused cancer and was not merely linked to it. It is now time to do the same with UV tanning, urge doctors.
Scientists create biodegradable membrane that accelerates burn healing
Treatments to regenerate skin from burns become tedious and long lasting; however, Mexican researchers developed a biodegradable membrane that allows to transfer skin cells (keratinocytes) to burn...
MIPT researchers put safety of magic anti-cancer bullet to test
A group of MIPT researchers together with their colleagues from Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Australia and the Netherlands have carried out the first systematic study analyzing the safety of so-called...
ActiveGuard mattress liners reduce bed bugs’ ability to lay eggs, study finds
Products that claim to control bed bugs have been on the market for years. Some work, and some don't.This is a bed bug, Cimex lectularius.
Restoring IL-17 may treat skin infections related to chronic alcohol consumption
New research published in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology suggests that increased sensitivity to infection related to chronic alcohol consumption is due to defective host defense responses and...