Scientists might have found the answer to keeping the skin looking young.
JAPAN - Beauty might only be skin deep, but for those wondering how to keep that skin young, scientists may have found an answer in the form of a protein that encourages cell competition.
And when that happens, weaker cells replicate, leaving the skin thinner, more prone to damage and slower to heal. They isolated two chemical compounds -- Y27632 and apocynin -- and tested both on skin cells, with positive results. In a review of the study commissioned by Nature, two professors from the University of Colorado said cell competition had previously only been studied extensively in fruit flies.
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