A naturally-occurring system discovered in bacteria holds promise as a way to fight pathogens – very specifically and without the risk of antibiotic resistance.

Only problem is right now the process involves using an electric shock, but scientists are working on a not so-painful method!

In December 2014, US President Barack Obama signed into law the Sunscreen Innovation Act (SIA), a law intended to get new sunscreen ingredients approved more quickly. 

FDA now has an answer for all existing sunscreen applicants: Your applications don’t contain enough data. 

“We tentatively determined … that we need more data to decide if these ingredients are, in fact, GRASE for use in OTC sunscreen products,” wrote Theresa Michele, FDA’s director of Nonprescription Drug Products. As such, all eight ingredients have been rejected and sent back to applicants with requests for additional data.

Between 2000 and 2010 the prices for logs, pulp and palm oil have increased by up to 333% (see also here).

Logging lowland forests in Sabah (northern Borneo) can return profits of US$9000-13,000 per hectare. After lands have been logged and converted to palm oil they can fetch an additional US$4000-11,000 per hectare.

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So in the mean time the battle-line for the orang-utans and their forests is the due diligence of a global army of consumers, working everyday and everywhere at the cash register.

UV can produce a number of effects within the cell including specific types of DNA damage in skin cells and, with extreme UV exposure, cell death. Some of these types of oxidative DNA and nucleotide damage, and failure of the cells to repair this damage can prompt cells to mutate, leading to the development of skin cancers.

A Dalhousie University PhD student in Halifax is developing a topical cream that he says will make tattoos fade away — without the pain that can come with laser treatments.