acne
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On a recent summer day at Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences, students ambled through yawns, braces and acne into their creative writing class.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
I developed persistent acne throughout high school and college, the kind that doesn’t respond to anything and nobody can explain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
He lifted his hair, showing his teenage acne to make her laugh.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
A few years later, I was managing an autoimmune condition and some stubborn cystic acne when my doctor suggested I try reducing dairy — just to see what happened.
From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2026
That’s what she calls them, instead of pimples or acne, like that’s supposed to make me glad to get them.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
It’s well known that C. acnes play a key role in acne, so antibiotics to fight the bacterium seemed like the logical solution.
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2025
To edit the genome of C. acnes, the research team led by Marc Güell has focused on improving DNA delivery to the cell, DNA stability inside the cell, and gene expression.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 9, 2024
Working with mice and with human skin samples, the scientists found that C. acnes triggers fibroblasts to transform into fat cells that secrete an antimicrobial substance—along with inflammation-causing proteins.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2022
Two strains of P. acnes are associated with the development of acne on human skin, but other strains are associated with healthy skin.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
It is now generally acknowledged that the cause of this disease is the organism known as bacillus acnes.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
