The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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There is a family with a genetic condition that makes their skin blue, who have been isolated in rural Kentucky for generations.
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‘Old people smell’ is actually caused by a chemical, 2-nonenal, that old people secrete through their skin
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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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Smokers get ten times more wrinkles than non-smokers.
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