Scratching where it itches reduces the presence of potentially harmful bacteria on the skin, studies in mice show.

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Most people associate sunburns with DNA damage -- it's what we've been taught in textbooks and by dermatologists for years.

The study, 'The ribotoxic stress response drives acute inflammation, cell death, and epidermal thickening in UV-irradiated skin in vivo', has been published in Molecular Cell. RNA is similar to ...

Sunburn has traditionally been attributed to UV-induced DNA damage, but it turns out that this is not the full truth.

Scratching an itch can bring a contradictory wave of pleasure and misery. A mouse study on scratching, reported in the Jan. 31 Science, fleshes out this ...

More information: Anna Constance Vind et al, The ribotoxic stress response drives acute inflammation, cell death, and epidermal thickening in UV-irradiated skin in vivo, Molecular Cell (2024).