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
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
For my peers battling acne, eczema or chronic sensitivity, most of the remedies didn’t seem to work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
He had a terrible case of acne, his face like a relief map.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
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
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.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
