What is retinol? And will it make my acne flare? Three experts unpack this trendy skincare ingredient
Retinol skincare products suddenly seem to be everywhere, promising clear, radiant and "youthful" skin.
Jun 2, 2025
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Organic Chemicals: News and Research on Tretinoin
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Guinea pigs offer new model for studying early embryonic development
Studying the early development of human embryos is challenging due to ethical constraints and technical difficulties. Therefore, animal models are often used to understand the biological processes that govern embryo development ...
Apr 4, 2025
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Scientists solve mystery of how the drug retinoic acid works to treat neuroblastoma
Neuroblastoma is a solid tumor that occurs in children. When high-risk, the disease has a poor prognosis. Decades ago, adding the drug retinoic acid to neuroblastoma treatment increased survival by 10–15%. However, this effect ...
Feb 28, 2025
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Oral arsenic trioxide for leukemia has a 97% cure rate: Hong Kong's prescription medicine enters international arena
Researchers at the LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) have invented an oral formulation of arsenic trioxide (Oral-ATO; ARSENOL) for the treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), a blood ...
Feb 12, 2025
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Rapid blood cancer diagnostic could speed decisions and save lives
Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have created a CRISPR-based rapid molecular diagnostic for two forms of leukemia that are driven by mutations that involve gene fusions. The technology accurately detects the presence ...
Oct 9, 2024
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Researchers propose host-directed therapy to stimulate immune system to eliminate tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is the world's deadliest bacterial disease and most commonly affects the lungs. Recent years have seen an increase in drug-resistant TB cases leaving many patients with limited treatment options. The only ...
Mar 25, 2024
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Lab-grown retinas explain why people see colors dogs can't
With human retinas grown in a petri dish, researchers discovered how an offshoot of vitamin A generates the specialized cells that enable people to see millions of colors, an ability that dogs, cats, and other mammals do ...
Jan 11, 2024
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Team uncovers why maternal diabetes predisposes babies to heart defects
When women with diabetes become pregnant, they face not only the typical challenges of pregnancy and impending parenthood, but also a scary statistic: they're five times more likely to have a baby with a congenital heart ...
Nov 30, 2023
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CAR-like membrane protein determines all-trans retinoic acid response in colorectal cancer
Researchers led by Prof. Bu Pengcheng from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators have revealed that the CAR-like membrane protein (CLMP) is a tumor suppressor and determines ...
Nov 20, 2023
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Discovery could lead to 'kinder' treatment for childhood neuroblastoma
Children with neuroblastoma—responsible for 15% of cancer deaths in this age group—could in future be given treatments with fewer side-effects than those associated with the current chemotherapy, thanks to a discovery by ...
Sep 20, 2023
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