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Summary: New research reveals that mental health patients experiencing their first episode of psychosis are more likely to have skin conditions, and that these patients face significantly higher risks of depression and suicidality. In a study of 481 individuals, those with dermatological symptoms such as rashes or itching were over three times more likely to report suicidal thoughts. The findings …

New Light-Based Therapy Kills 92% of Skin Cancer Cells Without Harming Healthy Tissue  SciTechDaily LED Light Blasts Cancer Cells and Spares Healthy Ones  UT News LED Light Targets and Destroys Cancer Cells While Protecting Healthy Tissue  BIOENGINEER.ORG Source link

While Fortnite, a game played by many, many kids, has done loads of collaborations with R or MA-rated properties, it has escalated things this Halloween during its “Fortnitemares” event. We’ve seen horror movie villains added before, and more on those later, but now Fortnite has added an Art the Clown skin, the villain of the infamous Terrifier series, which is …

If you or someone you love has ever dealt with frequent dry, red or itchy patches of skin, you likely know how frustrating eczema can be. The condition can impact confidence, comfort and daily routine for anyone; but for parents especially, it can be particularly heartbreaking to watch a child enduring sleepless nights and one painful flare-up after another. Eczema is …

The best medicines can come from unexpected places. Case in point: A new study published today finds that stevia—the natural sugar substitute—can potentially boost common hair loss treatments’ potency. Scientists in China and Australia developed a dissolving patch that combines a sweetener derived from the stevia plant (Stevia rebaudiana) with topical minoxidil, the active ingredient in popular over-the-counter hair loss …

This Vitamin B3 Supplement Could Cut Your Skin Cancer Risk by up to 54%  SciTechDaily Vitamin B3 derivative may reduce risk for recurrent skin cancer  springermedicine.com Nicotinamide Use Reduces SCC in Veterans With Prior Skin Cancer  Conexiant People’s Pharmacy: Daily B vitamin reduces chance of skin cancer  The Crescent-News Study: Vitamin B3 Reduces the Risk of Skin Cancer Recurrence…  jordannews.jo Source link

Leading our coverage this week was the passing of famed primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall, who died of natural causes on Wednesday (Oct. 1) at age 91. Goodall became renowned for her pioneering studies of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park. She arrived at the park early in her career with no formal academic training in …

Scientists have created egg-like cells capable of fertilization using DNA from ordinary skin cells in what could be a major breakthrough for infertility research. Using a newly developed technique to remove excess chromosomes, a team led by clinical biologist Nuria Marti-Gutierrez of Oregon Health & Science University has created human eggs that can undergo successful fertilization and start to develop …

Mitinori Saitou at Kyoto University first documented in 2018 how his team turned human blood cells into stem cells, which they then transformed into human eggs, but they were too immature to be fertilized to make embryos. US startups Conception Biosciences, Ivy Natal, Gameto, and Ovelle Bio are all working on making eggs or sperm in a lab. But the …

James GallagherHealth and science correspondent OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks US scientists have, for the first time, made early-stage human embryos by manipulating DNA taken from people’s skin cells and then fertilising it with sperm. The technique could overcome infertility due to old age or disease, by using almost any cell in the body as the starting point for life. It could …