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940nm wavelength laser is superior for treating facial spider veins: BUSM researchers

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have concluded that the 940nm wavelength laser is superior for treating facial spider veins (telangiectasias) as compared to the 532nm wavelength laser. The findings, which appear in the recent issue of Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, are the first time these lasers were tested against each other for superiority.

7 Oct 2009

Enhanced skin cancer risk linked to defects in cellular aging controls

Cell lifespan is limited by telomeres, DNA sequences that cap chromosomes and control the number of times a cell may be copied.

23 Feb 2009

New Cockayne syndrome discovery

Scientists of the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) have shown that the genetic defect that causes Cockayne Syndrome affects a key function of the cell – the transcription of genes coding for ribosomal RNA.

21 Aug 2007

Scientists describe elaborate system of gene control triggered by chemical damage to DNA

Scientists describe for the first time a web of inter-related responses that cells use to avoid becoming diseased or cancerous after being exposed to a powerful mutagen.

7 Jun 2006

New discovery could help improve some forms of chemotherapy

The research looked at XPB helicase from an archaea, a single cell organism similar to bacteria. Helicases are enzymes that unwind or separate the strands of the nucleic acid double helix, an action that is critical to transcription and nucleotide excision repair (NER), as well as other cell processes.

11 Apr 2006

Xeroderma Pigmentosum News and Research

940nm wavelength laser is superior for treating facial spider veins: BUSM researchers

Enhanced skin cancer risk linked to defects in cellular aging controls

New Cockayne syndrome discovery

Scientists describe elaborate system of gene control triggered by chemical damage to DNA

New discovery could help improve some forms of chemotherapy

New lotion repairs sun damaged skin

Sunscreens may play an increasingly important role in defending the skin

First gene therapy for skin cancer

Studies reveal complex molecular choreography with implications for human health and disease

Arrayed CRISPR Screening for Revolutionizing Target Discovery

Innovations in baculovirus–insect cell expression systems

Compound Management and its Crucial Role in Early Pharmaceutical Research

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