RESEARCHERS DISCOVER MOISTURISING PROTEIN THAT PROTECTS SKIN FROM SUN DAMAGE
June 1st, 2007
BY MONICA DOBIE
RESEARCHERS from VIB, the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, in Belgium, have discovered a protein that both protects human skin from sun damage and retains moisture. The protein caspase-14 is crucial in maintaining the 'stratum corneum', a layer of flattened dead cells that acts as a protective barrier for our skin, their research has shown. Scientists created mice unable to produce caspase-14, and compared them with normal mice.
The mice without caspase-14 had skin that was shiny and wrinkled from dehydration due to the loss of water via the ...
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