acne
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Breakouts can look like milder, painless white bumps or dark specks known as whiteheads and blackheads, or more painful red bumps and deeper cysts — a mark of cystic acne.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Teenage acne tends to affect the forehead, nose and cheeks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
The acne on her cheeks and chin made her hesitant to look her bosses in the eye.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Treatments for adult hormonal acne, particularly in women, can differ from what’s done for teens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Sometimes, Davis looked like a boy—pale skin, acne on his chin.
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
As it turns out, people blessed with healthy skin have comparable amounts of the bacteria C. acnes to those with acne.
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
The most commonly involved bacteria are Cutibacterium acnes, which live innocuously on skin cells but can grow out of control when the skin's oily sebum increases and boosts bacterial food supply.
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
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