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Can algae enhance skin regeneration and wound healing?
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Can algae enhance skin regeneration and wound healing?

by Wiley Schematic illustration for fabrication of EMVEG using a EG extrusion method. Credit: Advanced Materials Interfaces (2023). DOI: 10.1002/admi.202202255 A product of a freshwater single-celled green algae called Euglena gracilis may enhance skin regeneration to speed up wound healing, according to new research published in Advanced Materials Interfaces. Investigators developed a system based on microvesicles that bud from the...

Algae shown to improve gastrointestinal health
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Algae shown to improve gastrointestinal health

Project is the first to test green algae on symptoms related to human digestion UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – SAN DIEGO A widespread, fast-growing plant called Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is famous in scientific laboratories due to its position as the world’s most exhaustively studied algae. For decades, the green, single-celled organism, which primarily grows in wet soil,...