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Stigmatisation a major impact of skin diseases across Europe, reveals JEADV study

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Sunday, October 8, 2023
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Published today in the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (JEADV), the diseases examined in the study included acne, atopic dermatitis, alopecia, psoriasis and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

Key Points: 
  • Published today in the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (JEADV), the diseases examined in the study included acne, atopic dermatitis, alopecia, psoriasis and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
  • 88% patients with skin disease considered their disease to be embarrassing in their personal life, with 83% reporting the same in their working life.
  • The prevalence of skin diseases is likely to be significantly higher than this, as 40% of skin cancers and STD diagnoses remain unrecognised on first consultation.
  • Despite their high prevalence and psychological and physical impact, skin diseases receive limited policy, research and funding attention.

It's A 10 Haircare Celebrates 7th Annual National Love Your Hair Day With Unbeatable Discounts, Community Initiatives, and Local Giveaways

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Friday, October 6, 2023
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MIAMI, Oct. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- It's A 10 Haircare is celebrating its 7th Annual National Love Your Hair Day with a 50% off sitewide sale.

Key Points: 
  • MIAMI, Oct. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- It's A 10 Haircare is celebrating its 7th Annual National Love Your Hair Day with a 50% off sitewide sale.
  • "We are excited to celebrate our 7th Annual National Love Your Hair Day with our customers and communities," said It's a 10 CEO and founder, Carolyn Aronson .
  • National Love Your Hair Day is not just a celebration of great hair; it's a celebration of self-love and acceptance.
  • For more information about It's a 10 Haircare and National Love Your Hair Day, please visit www.itsa10haircare.com or follow @itsa10haircare on social media.

Top Shelf Nutrition Continues its Retail Push With Growing Health and Athletic Product Lines

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Thursday, October 5, 2023
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Oct. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Top Shelf Nutrition is a supplement label devoted to helping Americans tap into proper nutrition and an active lifestyle. The company started with two passionate health fanatics, Nick Giovannetti and Connor Hair, who created their own unique supplement formulations right in their dorm room at Florida State University. The co-founders' passion for health and fitness quickly grew into a supplement label that became widespread across their home state. Top Shelf Nutrition initially featured a popular pre-workout formula, followed by superfood and immune support products for everyday health and wellness.

Key Points: 
  • The Florida-based Sports Nutrition Brand Is Rapidly Growing Its Product Offerings as It Continues to Expand Its Retail Presence Across the U.S.
    FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Oct. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Top Shelf Nutrition is a supplement label devoted to helping Americans tap into proper nutrition and an active lifestyle.
  • The co-founders' passion for health and fitness quickly grew into a supplement label that became widespread across their home state.
  • Top Shelf Nutrition initially featured a popular pre-workout formula, followed by superfood and immune support products for everyday health and wellness.
  • More recently, Top Shelf Nutrition has expanded beyond the borders of the Sunshine State, landing key brick-and-mortar retail accounts and establishing a healthy flow of e-commerce sales across the country.

Quantum dots are part of a revolution in engineering atoms in useful ways – Nobel Prize for chemistry recognizes the power of nanotechnology

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Wednesday, October 4, 2023
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The 2023 Nobel Prize for chemistry isn’t the first Nobel awarded for research in nanotechnology.

Key Points: 
  • The 2023 Nobel Prize for chemistry isn’t the first Nobel awarded for research in nanotechnology.
  • But it is perhaps the most colorful application of the technology to be associated with the accolade.
  • This year’s prize recognizes Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov for the discovery and development of quantum dots.
  • Quantum dots brilliantly fluoresce: They absorb one color of light and reemit it nearly instantaneously as another color.

Skip chemical bonds, rely on quantum physics

    • For instance, some of the earliest dyes started with a clear substance such as analine, transformed through chemical reactions to the desired hue.
    • Rather than depending on chemical bonds to determine the wavelengths of light they absorb and emit, they rely on very small clusters of semiconducting materials.
    • Early quantum dots were often based on cadmium selenide for instance – the component materials of which are toxic.
    • And yet, quantum dots are a pivotal part of a technology transition that’s revolutionizing how people work with atoms and molecules.

‘Base coding’ on an atomic level

    • This concept is intuitive when it comes to computing, where programmers use the “base code” of 1,s and 0’s, albeit through higher level languages.
    • This ability to work with base codes also extends to the material world.
    • Here, the code is made up of atoms and molecules and how they are arranged in ways that lead to novel properties.
    • Bawendi, Brus and Ekimov’s work on quantum dots is a perfect example of this form of material-world base coding.

Shayda: this unflinching portrayal of domestic violence marks a profound shift in Australian cinema

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Wednesday, October 4, 2023
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Stereotypical stories frequently sidestep the intricacies of social bonds, as well as the cultural differences in domestic life and familial attachment.

Key Points: 
  • Stereotypical stories frequently sidestep the intricacies of social bonds, as well as the cultural differences in domestic life and familial attachment.
  • Shayda is a powerful debut feature for the Iranian-Australian filmmaker, in a worldly film which marks a profound shift in Australian storytelling and Australian cinema.
  • It presents an unflinching portrayal of domestic violence and the grim reality of an Iranian woman trapped in an oppressive marriage.

Hushed conversations and mounting tension

    • She had previously tried to divorce her husband in Iran; now she seeks refuge in a women’s shelter in Australia.
    • This tension only intensifies with each seemingly ordinary scene, such as Mona having McDonald’s with her father in a suburban food court.
    • Such scenes are rich with information, unravelling gradually through hushed conversations and mounting tension.

Shame and loss

    • But his desire for reconciliation is driven more by jealousy and shame than love.
    • During a phone call with her mother in Tehran, Shayda learns of the shame her family endures due to her defiant actions.
    • The film also delves into themes of loss, both of one’s homeland and familial ties left behind.

Hope and rejuvenation

    • Moments like mother and daughter playfully performing television aerobics eloquently convey Shayda’s deep connection with her daughter.
    • Shayda’s gift to Mona of a goldfish becomes a symbol of hope.
    • Subtle hints of colour and closeup shots of household objects immerse us in the daily life within the women’s shelter.
    • Read more:
      How photography can reveal, overlook and manipulate truth: the fearless work of Australian Iranian artist Hoda Afshar

Indie Beauty and Wellness Brand LĀ SOL Collective Expands Product Line with HYDRATE Body Oil

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Wednesday, October 4, 2023
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To build brand recognition beyond suncare products and, in response to customer requests for a moisturizer, LĀ SOL Collective has introduced its latest creation: the HYDRATE Body Oil .

Key Points: 
  • To build brand recognition beyond suncare products and, in response to customer requests for a moisturizer, LĀ SOL Collective has introduced its latest creation: the HYDRATE Body Oil .
  • Indie Beauty and Wellnes Brand LĀ SOL Collective launches HYDRATE Oil, a new natural ingredents body and hair Oil.
  • LĀ SOL Collective's commitment to providing all-natural, clean, and high-quality products that help customers achieve healthy, glowing skin and hair is evident in the HYDRATE Body Oil .
  • Experience the benefits of LĀ SOL Collective's HYDRATE Body Oil and achieve soft, glowing, and healthy-looking skin and hair today!

 Bolt Threads to Become a Public Company, Growing its Pioneering Biomaterials Platform Through Business Combination With Golden Arrow Merger Corp.

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Wednesday, October 4, 2023
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Bolt Threads, Inc. (“Bolt Threads”), a pioneer in sustainable biomaterials for consumer products, announced a definitive agreement for a business combination with Golden Arrow Merger Corp (Nasdaq: GAMC) (“Golden Arrow”) that would result in Bolt Threads becoming a public company.

Key Points: 
  • Bolt Threads, Inc. (“Bolt Threads”), a pioneer in sustainable biomaterials for consumer products, announced a definitive agreement for a business combination with Golden Arrow Merger Corp (Nasdaq: GAMC) (“Golden Arrow”) that would result in Bolt Threads becoming a public company.
  • Bolt Threads is a mission-driven biomaterials platform created to enable a better future for people and the planet.
  • Additionally, Golden Arrow’s trust account of $21.5M may deliver additional proceeds to the company at closing of the business combination transaction.
  • BTIG, LLC is acting as financial advisor and Latham & Watkins LLP is acting as legal advisor to Bolt Threads.

Eton Pharmaceuticals Announces Acquisition of FDA-Approved Ultra-Rare Disease Product Nitisinone

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Wednesday, October 4, 2023
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DEER PARK, Ill., Oct. 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Eton Pharmaceuticals (“Eton” or “the Company”) (Nasdaq: ETON), an innovative pharmaceutical company focused on developing, acquiring, and commercializing products to address unmet needs in patients suffering from rare diseases, today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire an abbreviated new drug application for Nitisinone Capsules via Oakrum Pharma, LLC’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding. The transaction has been approved by the bankruptcy court and is expected to be effective on October 12, 2023. The acquired product was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in May of 2023 for the treatment of hereditary tyrosinemia type 1 (HT-1) in combination with dietary restriction of tyrosine and phenylalanine. It is estimated that less than 500 patients in the United States suffer from this ultra-rare condition.

Key Points: 
  • Nitisinone is our fourth FDA-approved product, and further advances us toward our goal of having ten commercial rare disease products on the market by the end of 2025.
  • Eton expects to launch the product in the first quarter of 2024 and plans to offer its Eton Cares support program to all patients.
  • Nitisinone is a prescription medicine used to treat adults and children with a hereditary disease called tyrosinemia type 1 (HT-1).
  • To report a suspected adverse event related to Nitisinone, contact Eton Pharmaceuticals, Inc. at: 1-855-224-0233 or the US Food and Drug Administration at www.fda.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088.

From glowing cats to wombats, fluorescent mammals are much more common than you'd think

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Wednesday, October 4, 2023
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But no one knew how common it was among mammals until now.

Key Points: 
  • But no one knew how common it was among mammals until now.
  • Our research, published in Royal Society Open Science today, found this glow – known as fluorescence – is extremely common.
  • Then, we tested if the fluorescence we observed in museum specimens was natural and not caused by preservation methods.

Nightclub lights

    • Nightclub visitors will be familiar with white clothes, or perhaps their gin and tonic, glowing blue under UV light.
    • These chemicals then emit visible light, which is lower-energy electromagnetic radiation.
    • In the case of gin and tonic, this is due to the presence of the quinine molecule in the tonic water.

How often do mammals glow?

    • Our team came together because we were curious about fluorescence in mammals.
    • We wanted to know if the glow reported recently for various species was really fluorescence, and how widespread this phenomenon was.
    • We started with the platypus to see if we could replicate the previously reported fluorescence.

Mammals in dazzling lights

    • Fluorescence is clearly common and widely distributed among mammals.
    • Nocturnal mammals were indeed more fluorescent, while aquatic species were less fluorescent than those that burrowed, lived in trees, or on land.
    • Based on our results, we think fluorescence is very common in mammals.
    • Linette Umbrello receives funding from the Australian Biological Resources Study and is a Research Associate at the Western Australian Museum.

Indigenous Peoples Day offers a reminder of Native American history − including the scalping they endured at the hands of Colonists

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Tuesday, October 3, 2023
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In 2021, the Biden administration declared the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples Day.

Key Points: 
  • In 2021, the Biden administration declared the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples Day.
  • I am a scholar of Colonial-Indigenous relations and think that officially recognizing Indigenous Peoples Day – and, more broadly, Native Americans’ history and survival – is important.
  • Yet, Indigenous Peoples Day and Columbus Day should also serve as a reminder of the violent past endured by Indigenous communities in North America.

Understanding scalping

    • Popular culture is full of examples of Native Americans scalping white settlers.
    • In several Indigenous cultures in North America, scalping was part of human trophy taking, which involves claiming human body parts as a war trophy.
    • But just because scalping was practiced by some Native American societies, it does not mean that it was practiced by all.
    • In fact, Colonists’ use of scalping against Native American people likely accelerated this practice.

Scalp bounties in New England and California

    • Colonies, territories and states in what is now the U.S. used scalp bounties widely from the 17th through the 19th centuries.
    • Colonial governments in New England issued over 60 scalp bounties from the 1680s through the 1750s, typically during various conflicts between Colonists and Native Americans.
    • Massachusetts made the widest use of scalp bounties among the New England Colonies in the 1700s.
    • State and federal officials, as well as several businesses, supported this genocide by paying bounties to scalp hunters.

Memory and violence

    • Centuries later, California and Massachusetts have had different responses to their role in these sordid histories.
    • California has acknowledged “historic wrongdoings” and the violence committed against the Indigenous people who live in the state.
    • Gavin Newsom set up a a Truth and Healing Council to discuss and examine the state’s historical relationship with Native Americans.

Legacies of scalping

    • The legacies of violence and scalping are deeply rooted and can be observed in numerous parts of U.S. society today.
    • For instance, various communities, including Lovewell, Maine, and Spencer, Mass., are named after scalp bounty hunters.
    • Such town names, and the history of violence connected to them, often hide in plain sight.