Applied scientists create wrinkled 'skin' on polymers
...cientists demonstrated a new method for developing wrinkled hard skins on the surface areas of polymers using ..."This technique is a one-step process for creating wrinkled skins," explains Vaziri. "The method is more robust compared with traditional techniques. The patter...JCI table of contents: July 20, 2006
... in sufferers. These symptoms include slow growth, wrinkled skin, hair loss, small face and jaw, pinched nose, osteoporosis, and atherosclerotic vascular disease. Currently, there are less than 50 known cases of HGPS in the world and most progeria patients die at around 13 years of age. HGPS is caused by a mu......ms may become afflicted with cataracts, hair loss, wrinkled skin, osteoporosis, arteriosclerosis, and type II diabetes; many patients contract cancer, and most die by the age of 50. Understanding how the WRN protein normally works to maintain genomic integrity could lead to new forms of treatment for cancer a......oping symptoms normally associated with old age -- wrinkled skin, hair loss, brittle bones and atherosclerosis, which usually causes their deaths by about age 13. There's no known treatment. But the new Hopkins research, and similar results from other labs, shows that a class of drugs known as farnesyl transf...