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Illegal skin lightening products are being sold in an increasingly wide range of UK outlets, including butchers, specialist food shops and small grocery stores, trading standards…

Smartphone apps that claim to offer “safe” and “healthy” tanning routines for users as young as four are being heavily prompted by influencers, helping to fuel…

Tissue sample collection, preservation and processingBack skin samples from age-matched adults and one litter of neonatal naked mole rats (Heterocephalus glaber) were maintained at the University…

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Nature, Published online: 06 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03984-8A ‘photonic skin’ with controllable colour and texture brings materials science a step closer to the adaptive camouflage found in…

Light therapy is certainly having a moment. You can now buy glowing gadgets for everything from skin conditions and wrinkles to sore muscles and gum disease,…

Sunbeds are so dangerous they should be banned in the UK, cancer experts and campaigners say.They have urged ministers to order the closure of the thousands…

Researchers have created human eggs from skin cells, potentially transforming IVF treatment for couples who have no other options.The work is at an early stage but…

Jessica, 25, was working a shift at Sephora when a little girl who looked about 10 ran up to one of her colleagues, crying. “Her skin…

This article is part of Nature Outlook: Skin, an editorially independent supplement produced with financial support from LEO Pharma. About this content.KaDee Troop is the mother…