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Leafhopper-Inspired Particles Could Revolutionize Invisibility and Beyond

Researchers at Pennsylvania State University have drawn inspiration from the humble leafhopper to develop synthetic brochosomes — nanostructures with extraordinary optical and functional properties.

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Wearable Microbiome Boost: HeiQ's Synbiotic Textile Tech Debuts in Coperni's C+ Clothing Line

The collaboration marks a significant step in merging fashion with functional skin care.

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Does Your Product Belong Among the C&T Allē Award Elites? Enter the 2026 Program to Find Out

The C&T Allē Awards have a long history of recognizing excellence across the cosmetic landscape. Does your innovation have what it takes to join them? Enter now to find out.

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Rising to the Occasion: What it Means to Win a C&T Allē Award — Earn Your Standing Ovation in 2026

"We are profoundly grateful to the C&T team for acknowledging our efforts, which motivates us to persist in pushing boundaries and revolutionizing the cosmetics industry."

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Testing Innovators: Submit Now to Take Center Stage at the 2026 C&T Allē Awards

Do your methods and devices put cosmetic innovations to the test? The Cosmetics & Toiletries 2026 Allē Awards want to recognize you - enter now.

Breaking through the boredom of trend fatigue is no easy matter. But it can be done.

The New Beauty Innovation Playbook: Rewriting the Rules

What can be done to overcome beauty's trend fatigue? Our experts have some answers.

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Two Johns Hopkins 'Amino Artisans' Aim to Synthesize Snail Mucus Protein

Researchers at Johns Hopkins' Krieger and Whiting schools aim to synthetically produce they key protein in snail mucus known as epiphragmin. Once created, the material could be enhanced for given benefits and made available to skin care manufacturers.

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The Rise of Recombinant Proteins in Beauty - and Making them Scalable

Considering the momentum recombinant proteins are gaining in beauty, here C&T takes closer look at what they are, how they're used, market demand, future directions and their production, with Mindy Goldstein, Ph.D., and Johnny Cordiner, CEO, Phenotypeca.

Nearly 2/3 of U.S. employers believe emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and robotics will become a standard part of their business in the near future, per a Forbes report.

How AI is Transforming Beauty Innovation: Now Available On Demand

This exclusive exploration of AI uncovers clever applications to transform your product development.

Taken together, brands of every size will leave this year's event with the knowledge and insights needed to innovate nimbly and mindfully and to elevate their brands to the next level.

Let's Connect the Dots Between Beauty Marketing and R&D: Beauty Accelerate Los Angeles 2024

Join Beauty Accelerate in Los Angeles to set the 2024-2025 innovation agenda!

Collectively, these experts will illustrate how new digital tools, changing workflows and much more can support rapid, consumer- and influencer-winning innovation, even among modestly sized brands.

Summer Fridays, Spate, Good Face Project & Bluebird on the Digitization of Beauty

From AI-driven trendspotting to rapid clean and sustainable product innovation, emerging tools are helping brands move nimbly and efficiently across marketing and R&D functions.

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AI x Automation = University of Toronto's Self-driving Human Tissue Lab

The University of Toronto is now equipped with a “self-driving lab” combining AI and automation to equip researchers to better understand health and disease, and more rapidly test the efficacy and toxicity of drugs and other materials.

The liquid-liquid encapsulation system introduces a drop of core material through a nozzle, which impacts on a host bath containing a floating shell layer on the surface.

Univ. Waterloo Develops Liquid-Liquid Technique for Stable Encapsulation

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a simple method for encapsulating liquid or liquid-suspended functional ingredients to protect and stabilize them, and control their release.

Biologically active substances with high commercial value, including oligosaccharides, exopolysaccharides, biosurfactants, enzymes, peptides and vitamins, are secreted by bacteria.

Microbes Convert Biodiesel Residuals to Lactic Acid, Boost $189 B Market

Work presented at the 2022 SINAFERM bioprocesses event describes the microbial production of lactic acid based on residual glycerin from biodiesel production. It's one example of the booming microbial products market, valued at ~US $189 billion in 2021.

Dior's and Gladyshev’s research is being billed as the first work dedicated to human skin rejuvenation with the ultimate goal of age reversal.

Dior and Gladyshev Aspire to Reverse Cellular Aging

Prestige beauty giant Parfums Christian Dior will collaborate with Vadim Gladyshev, Ph.D., of Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, with the goal to research and reverse cellular aging.

Powered by finger contact, this bioenergy-harvesting process can continuously collect hundreds of millijoules of energy during sleep and without movements.

Device Harvests Power from Finger Perspiration, Holds Potential for Wearables

Powered by finger contact, this device's bioenergy-harvesting process can continuously collect hundreds of millijoules of energy during sleep and without movements.

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Beiersdorf Opens Innovation Center, North American HQ

The innovation center is in Florham Park, New Jersey, and its new North American headquarters is in Stamford, Connecticut.

Verily’s R&D team and L’Oréal’s active cosmetics division will explore both the development of new technologies and tele-diagnosis solutions, e.g., sensors; and AI algorithms for dermatology and skin care.

L'Oréal, Verily Partner to Advance Precision Skin Health

The first-of-its-kind partnership in the beauty space will drive two programs to elucidate and characterize skin and hair aging mechanisms, and to inform L’Oréal’s precision beauty tech strategy and product development.