Israeli scientists discover skin gene that helps build body’s first line of immune defense

The findings, published in the peer-reviewed journal Cell Reports, reveal a previously unknown mechanism linking skin ...
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Using Super-Resolution Imaging to Better Understand Human Skin Cells

- Professors Hao F. Zhang and Xiaomin Bao’s groups used super-resolution imaging on human skin cells for the first time. - The researchers explored the gateways between the cells’ cytoplasm and ...
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Ben-Gurion University Study Finds Skin Gene Also Powers the Body’s Frontline Immune Defense

A single gene that helps form the skin’s surface also keeps crucial immune cells alive, according to new research from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev published in Cell Reports.
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Promising skin science widens the gap between biological and chronological age

In the 1990s, a team led by MIT’s Leonard P. Guarente, Ph.D., experimented on yeast, more formally known as Saccharomyces cerevisiae. They identified an important set of genes involved in regulating a ...
The Conversation

Acne bacteria trigger cells to produce fats, oils and other lipids essential to skin health – new research

Samia Almoughrabie does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

A single skin gene helps build the body's first line of immune defense

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have discovered that a gene long known for shaping the skin's ...