December 2025 in “Al-Iraqia Medical College Journal” This study explored the relationships between virus susceptibility to infection and several factors, finding that higher heat tolerance and larger virus size correlated positively with infection susceptibility, while high humidity and higher mutation rates correlated inversely among eight RNA viruses, including SARS-CoV-2 and influenza.
December 2025 in “Clinical Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology” This study highlights the potential of ZDHHC17 methylation as a biomarker or therapeutic target in addressing skin aging, offering new insights into its molecular mechanisms.
This study suggests that estimating autism likelihood as early as one month after birth may enable more precise early intervention for children with developmental support needs, potentially improving diagnosis, workflows, and reducing service wait times.
September 2025 in “BULLETIN OF STOMATOLOGY AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY” In this review, researchers explored the complex mechanisms behind chemotherapy-induced side effects like nausea, fatigue, and hair loss, and discussed potential strategies using natural agents to manage these toxicities, improving understanding for targeted adjunct therapies.
April 2025 in “International Journal of General Medicine” This study found that among COVID-19 patients, a higher presence of the G allele in the IFITM3 rs12252 polymorphism correlates with increased inflammatory markers and disease severity, noting higher ESR, CRP, Fibrinogen, LDH, and D-dimer levels in severe cases compared to mild ones.
July 2024 in “Journal Of Stem Cell Research” In this review, the authors highlight the crucial role of mesenchymal stem cells in dermatologic therapies, noting their potential to enhance skin structure and appearance through regenerative mechanisms like inflammation induction, angiogenesis, and recruitment of tissue-specific progenitors.
June 2024 in “Georgetown Scientific Research Journal” This study found that intradermal bleomycin injections induced dermal fibrosis in C57BL/6 mice, evidenced by hair follicle obliteration and dermal thickening, though no significant trends in gene expression were observed, indicating the need for further research to understand the link between fibrosis and dyschromia.
September 2023 in “Frontiers in cell and developmental biology” This study found that a catalytically active version of Vav2 significantly altered gene expression patterns in hair follicle stem cells in mice, with these changes varying over the animals' lifespans.
September 2023 in “Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology” This review explores the role of JAG1 in disease treatment, highlighting the need for effective methods to deliver JAG1 in its bound form to activate NOTCH signaling for therapeutic applications in craniofacial bone loss and myocardial infarction.
This paper reviews the effectiveness and side effects of various treatments for androgenetic alopecia, telogen effluvium, and alopecia areata, emphasizing the importance of discussing each option's costs, benefits, and risks with patients.
June 2023 in “GSC Advanced Research and Reviews” This review covers the history, symptoms, and treatment progress for Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome, noting that while no cure exists, understanding its molecular mechanism may improve future treatment strategies.
March 2022 in “Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research” This review discusses therapeutics for mitochondrial dysfunction and reports no new clinical findings.
In this study, cepharanthine and tetrandrine demonstrated efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 in a cell-based infection assay, with cepharanthine showing a lower IC50 value.
January 2017 in “Chemistry & Industry” Eating fewer calories may slow aging and removing old cells can increase lifespan in mice.
January 2015 in “Durham e-Theses (Durham University)” This study found that glucose starvation and hypoxia are physiological triggers of ER stress in in vitro differentiated adipocytes, rather than high concentrations of saturated fatty acids, cholesterol, or proinflammatory cytokines.
November 2013 in “Elsevier eBooks” This review discusses the evolving understanding of epithelial stem cells, noting how new models challenge old assumptions and suggesting multiple stem cell populations contribute differently to skin and hair follicle regeneration.
September 2023 in “International journal of medicine” This study reviewed the current status and future scope of artificial intelligence in healthcare, highlighting its potential to revolutionize medical practices through improved affordability, efficiency, and speed, as well as its applicability in various fields such as imaging, diagnosis, and individualized care.
July 2023 in “bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)” This study reports that a low concentration of chitosan induces callose deposition and slows root hair growth in Arabidopsis, suggesting an evolutionary conservation of this response to mild biotic stress across plant types.
November 2017 in “British Journal of Dermatology” Genes controlling hair growth and immune response are disrupted in male pattern baldness.
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January 2021 in “SN Applied Sciences” This article highlights the versatility and potential of alginate and its derivatives in tissue engineering applications, discussing their properties, modification techniques, and various uses in enhancing tissue healing, bone regeneration, and cell growth.
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August 1991 in “Journal of The American Academy of Dermatology” This article reviews methotrexate's pharmacokinetics and toxicity, emphasizing the role of urinary excretion and leucovorin in avoiding most toxic reactions; it provides no new clinical results.
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January 2014 in “Journal of Clinical and Experimental Dentistry” This review outlines the oral toxic effects of chemotherapy and stresses the need for evaluating dental health prior to treatment to mitigate these complications, but it reports no new clinical results.
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March 2016 in “Lasers in Medical Science” This review found that many low-level light therapy studies report beneficial effects but often fail to provide adequate measurement details, affecting the reliability and repeatability of the research.
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January 2016 in “PubMed” This review discusses the role of epidermal differentiation complex genes and epigenetic mechanisms in skin development and certain diseases, emphasizing their potential for improving drug development and delivery systems but provides no new experimental results.
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March 2015 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” This study provides evidence that Cyclosporine A inhibits catagen development in human hair follicles, suggesting different underlying mechanisms from those observed in rodent studies.
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August 2015 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” This study found that sex bias exists in dermatological research, with 60% of articles not reporting the sex of cells or animals and a disproportionate use of male cells and animals when known.
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August 2019 in “Cell Proliferation” This study found that 3D cultured hair follicle-like constructs, which include keratinocytes and dermal papilla cells, showed improved gene expression and cell interactions relevant to hair follicle development.
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February 2024 in “Cureus” This review discusses the emerging role of platelet-rich plasma in bone healing and reports no new clinical results; it highlights promising outcomes from existing research and calls for further standardization and exploration in this field.
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August 2019 in “Journal of Molecular Histology” This study found that upregulation of NFIC may enhance proliferation and osteogenic/cementogenic differentiation in rat dental follicle cells.
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May 2020 in “Dermatology Research and Practice” This review discusses "follicular hypoglycania" as a potential pathology in hair growth disorders and reports that proteoglycan replacement therapy may improve hair loss treatments, though it presents no new clinical trial results.