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Eighteen studies identified complications such as rash, irritation, immune system disorders, stratum corneum DNA damage and hormonal disruption.

Literature Review Connects Sunscreen Absorption with Potential Adverse Effects

A literature review published in Dermatology Research suggests the potential adverse effects, i.e., irritation, rashes, hormone disruption, etc., of sunscreen ingredients absorbed into human skin and present in human plasma and urine.

US FDA Pushes Sunscreen Reform on Three Fronts

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced three new efforts to advance its framework for sun protection products including Maximal Usage Trials (MUsT)—just ahead of summer vacation and in line with #DontFryDay.

Olumiant is a Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor, which blocks the activity of one or more of a specific family of enzymes, interfering with the pathway that leads to inflammation, thereby, treating patients with alopecia areata.

FDA Approves First Systemic Alopecia Areata Treatment

Olumiant is a Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor, which blocks the activity of one or more of a specific family of enzymes, interfering with the pathway that leads to inflammation to thereby treat patients with alopecia areata.

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FDA Clears the Air on CBD Reform Efforts

While CBD is trending across market segments, the rules in play to ensure public health and market direction are baffling at best. As such, the FDA has issued an update outlining its efforts to provide clarity.

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FDA Sets Regulatory Framework for Regenerative Biological Therapies

It's a sign of the times when technology and innovation hit a point where the U.S. Food and Drug Administration must stop and write new rules to ensure consumer safety. That time, with respect to regenerative biological therapies, is now.

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[update] Asbestos in Talc? Latest FDA Tests Find No Evidence

Asbestos fibers were not detected in any of the 50 samples tested via PLM or TEM. While this is good news, one expert highlights how the report demonstrates the FDA's fundamental lack of understanding of chemistry and formulations.

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New Oswestfalen-Lippe University Chair Starts in 2016

The new chair has already raised more than a half million euros in third-party funds.

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Patent Pick: Aerogels Advance Sunscreens

While white, zinc oxide-nosed lifeguards in the movies made some young hearts skip a beat, today's consumers don't go for that look. L’Oréal's new aerogel particle composition may solve this pasty dilemma.

L'Oreal's winners represent fields of research focused on pollution, psoriasis and more.

From Pollution to Psoriasis: Meet L'Oréal USA's 2016 Women in Science Fellowship Winners

Program awards $60,000 grants to female scientists to advance their postdoctoral research.

Researchers Investigate Photocontact Allergy in Sunscreens

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology have investigated what happens when sun care products break down in the presence of UV radiation to better understand photocontact allergy with this process.

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Sunscreen Symposium Day One Enlightens Attendees

Cosmetic scientists from around the world descended on Walt Disney World for the two-day 2015 Sunscreen Symposium featuring skin safety, boosting sunscreen efficacy, testing, formulations and more.

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Detecting Coral Stress in Response to Sunscreens

Metabolomics is at the heart of recent work published in Nature Scientific Reports, wherein an increase in a known steroid in coral was noted in the presence of three common sunscreen ingredients.

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Sunscreens May Release Metals, Nutrients Into Seawater

Sunscreen ingredients' impact on marine ecosystems is in the spotlight. Research in Environmental Science & Technology examines if and how sunscreens release various compounds into seawater, and their potential effects.

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Sunscreen Symposium Day Two: Diverse Outlooks Engaged

Cosmetic scientists from around the world descended on Walt Disney World for the two-day 2015 Sunscreen Symposium featuring skin safety, boosting sunscreen efficacy, testing, formulations and more.

The resulting composition is anhydrous, transparent and esthetically pleasing.

Patent Pick: J&J Boosts Sunscreen Transparency, Esthetics

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has been issued a patent for identifying a silicone, ethanol and UV filter balance that improves the transparency and esthetics of sunscreens. The key? Miscibility.

Blocked indole-5,6-quinones (IQs) are said to be precise and tailorable molecules that can offer a bottom-up understanding of properties in eumelanin and have the potential to advance the design of melanin-inspired materials.

Melanin Insights Could Drive Ultra-protective Sunscreens

McGill's Department of Chemistry, in collaboration with Ohio State University and the University of Girona, has identified an approach to stabilize indole-5,6-quinone (IQ), an implicated biosynthetic intermediate and subunit of eumelanin.

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Patent Pick: Fullerene Sunscreens for Next-gen Protection

Simplify, simplify, simplify. Poetic words on life from Thoreau, and a more recent edict from consumers—for product labels, that is. This notion is echoed by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, in a new sunscreen patent application.

Previous studies have shown that curcumin can decrease sunlight-induced inflammation, damage to human skin cells and the expression of sun-induced collagen destroying matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs).

Curcumin Nanoparticles May Be Viable Adjuvant for Sunscreen

Mice pretreated with curcumin nanoparticles had less erythema and inflammation, decreased apoptosis and less p53 expression following exposure to UVB than those in the control group.

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