CBD effects on the skin
CBD-based cosmetic products are more and more important on the market despite a still unclear legal context. Sold as being antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, beneficial for oily and acne-prone skin but also for wrinkles, what is the reality behind the use of cannabidiol?
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8 March 2022
The good, the bad and the benefic light for our body
Since the beginning of human life, our skin has always been exposed to different levels of light. However, not every wavelenghts of light have the same impacts on our skin, some can be good and other bad.
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22 April 2021
Coronavirus: how this virus can affect our largest organ, the skin?
There's no need here to list the usual clinical manifestations of COVID-19 infection. They are many and sadly may lead to acute respiratory distress syndrome and death. Let's focus on a special topic : our skin. The skin symptoms have been poorly described...
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17 December 2020
AFM: all-in-one technology fitting regulatory requirements for cosmetic efficacy testing
Wrinkles, oily skin, under-eye bags, acne/breakouts, dry skin… There’s a clear demand for products able to prove efficacy against a wide variety of consumer concerns. The protection of consumers from misleading claims on efficacy and other characteristics of cosmetics are...
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3 September 2020
Beyond BioMechanics, there is mechanotransduction
All living cells depend on their mechanical surroundings. Their structure and function are directly linked to this mechanical stimulus (shear stress, gravity). Cells sense these physical forces by their integrin-based adhesion (“outside-in” and “inside-out”) and translate...
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10 June 2020
Biomechanics and mechanobiology
Biomechanics uses mechanical and physics principles to understand biological systems as structure of human cells, tissues or organs. Mechanobiology studies the way how physical forces in cell or tissue can contribute to develop changes or even diseases...
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1 February 2020
A brief manual of biomechanics
Stress, strain, relaxation, elastic modulus, viscoelasticity, dissipation…The feeling of hearing “blah blah blah” when you hear about biomechanics? No stress! We are decoding for you the physics terms important to the understanding of the properties of biological...
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4 October 2018