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Flu Vaccine Effective with Microneedle Patch

Thursday, April 30th, 2009 - 16:42:02 - Anuradha Menon

Flu vaccine delivered through skin patches containing microneedles has proven just as effective at preventing influenza in mice as intramuscular...

Anti-Ageing Cosmetic Trial Reduces Wrinkles

Thursday, April 30th, 2009 - 10:33:09 - Anuradha Menon

Dermatologists at The University of Manchester carried out a clinical trial on 60 volunteers with typical signs of sun-damaged skin and found that...

Parasite's Conjugal Bed Discovered

Sunday, April 12th, 2009 - 16:19:27 - Sarah Gingichashvili

Researchers have finally shown that the parasite responsible for leishmaniasis does engage in sex, potentially opening up new opportunities for...

Bone Marrow Stem Cells Regenerates Skin

Monday, January 19th, 2009 - 16:15:10 - Ehud Rattner

A new study suggests that adult bone marrow stem cells can be used in the construction of artificial skin. The findings mark an advancement in wound...

Reprogramming Skin Cells for Drugs

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 - 18:12:09 - Ehud Rattner

Skin cells from a patient with a genetic disease called spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) have been reprogrammed into stem cells that can be used as a...

Seeing with Your Skin
Friday, October 3rd, 2008 - Anni Shaer Levitt
Does seeing through skin cells sound like crazy science fiction to you? Think again. Professor Leonid Yaroslavsky, a...

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Seeing Through the Skin

Sunday, September 14th, 2008 - 11:53:34 - Ehud Rattner

Feeling blue? According to Prof. Leonid Yaroslavsky from Tel Aviv University, the saying may be more than just a metaphor. Prof. Yaroslavsky believes...

Bone that Blends into Tendons

Sunday, August 31st, 2008 - 12:28:58 - Anuradha Menon

Engineers at Georgia Tech have used skin cells to create artificial bones that mimic the ability of natural bone to blend into other tissues such as...

Skin-Tone Gene Could Predict Cancer Risk

Monday, May 19th, 2008 - 12:35:48 - Ehud Rattner

Most people with pale skin, red hair or freckles know to slather on extra sun block to ward off skin cancer. A trio of new studies reinforces that...

Skin Patch May Replace Traditional Injections
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 - Einat Rotman
HP and Crospon have developed a skin patch which uses microneedles that barely penetrate the skin. The microneedles can...