acne

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

The Cleveland Clinic notes that symptoms instead vary widely and can include irregular menstrual cycles, elevated androgen levels, acne, hair growth or loss, infertility and metabolic complications.

From Salon ● May 16, 2026

Some also use blue light, a shorter wavelength on the light spectrum, which some studies suggest helps with acne.

From BBC ● May 2, 2026

The NHS says commonly reported side effects of hormonal contraception include headaches, feeling sick, mood swings, weight gain, sore breasts and acne, but that side effects usually get better with time.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 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

The devil’s in the details when we examine strain-level differences: acne-prone individuals tend to have a greater diversity of C. acnes strains—and that diversity includes more pathogenic strains.

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

In particular, human sebaceous glands support the growth of the bacterium Propionibacterium acnes, which uses oil from the glands for food.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

It is now generally acknowledged that the cause of this disease is the organism known as bacillus acnes.

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