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Have a sunscreen routine — and remember your ears

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A dermatologist gives skin-protection guidance and speaks to recent social-media chatter about the safety of chemical-based sunscreens.

News Releases

Gene therapy researcher Jeffrey Chamberlain (left) and Hichem Tsafaout

New gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy offers hope

Researchers have developed a novel delivery system to get reparative proteins into defective genes within muscles.

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Genome recording makes living cells their own historians

ENGRAM chronicles signals and biological states as they occur inside cells.

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Ultrasounds may not find this cancer in Black women

A common diagnostic strategy can fail to catch endometrial cancer from 4% to 11% of the time in Black patients, a study shows.

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Biomaterials center funds new ideas, fights inequity

Building on a researcher network and grants to reduce disparities, University of Michigan and UW lead NIH-funded center.

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Alzheimer’s vision study improved with home tests

Research looking at the link between Alzheimer’s disease and eye problems is based on ongoing ACT study started in 1994.

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