Tag Archives: Skin
Sorting out stroking sensations: Biologists find individual neurons in skin that react to massage
Jan. 30, 2013 The skin is a human being’s largest sensory organ, helping to distinguish between a pleasant contact, like a caress, and a negative sensation, like a pinch or a burn
Sorting out stroking sensations: Biologists find individual neurons in skin that react to massage
Jan. 30, 2013 The skin is a human being’s largest sensory organ, helping to distinguish between a pleasant contact, like a caress, and a negative sensation, like a pinch or a burn
Sorting out stroking sensations: Biologists find individual neurons in skin that react to massage
Jan. 30, 2013 The skin is a human being’s largest sensory organ, helping to distinguish between a pleasant contact, like a caress, and a negative sensation, like a pinch or a burn
Sorting out stroking sensations: Biologists find individual neurons in skin that react to massage
Jan. 30, 2013 The skin is a human being’s largest sensory organ, helping to distinguish between a pleasant contact, like a caress, and a negative sensation, like a pinch or a burn
Sorting out stroking sensations: Biologists find individual neurons in skin that react to massage
Jan. 30, 2013 The skin is a human being’s largest sensory organ, helping to distinguish between a pleasant contact, like a caress, and a negative sensation, like a pinch or a burn
‘Ban non-medics from giving Botox’
28 January 2013 Last updated at 19:46 ET By Michelle Roberts Health editor, BBC News online Only trained doctors, nurses and dentists should provide non-surgical cosmetic treatments such as Botox, say surgeons.
Slow-release ‘jelly’ delivers drugs better
Jan. 28, 2013 Duke University biomedical engineers have developed a new delivery system that overcomes the shortcomings of a promising class of peptide drugs — very small proteins — for treating diseases such as diabetes and cancer. There are more than 40 peptide drugs approved for use in humans and more than 650 are being tested in clinical studies.
Modifications of a nanoparticle can change chemical interactions with cell membranes
Jan. 23, 2013 Researchers at Syracuse University’s Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering at L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science are studying the toxicity of commonly used nanoparticles, particles up to one million times smaller than a millimeter that could potentially penetrate and damage cell membranes
Linchpin of skin response to UVA light discovered
Jan. 21, 2013 Researchers have strengthened their understanding of how skin cells called melanocytes sense ultraviolet light and act to protect themselves with melanin. In a new study, they report experiments showing that an ion channel well-known elsewhere in the body for its chemical sensitivity, plays a central role in this process
Mature T cells can switch function to better tackle infection
Jan. 20, 2013 Helper cells of the immune system can switch to become killer cells in the gut
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