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Hair dyeing is often prone to many diseases
Medicine - Health

Hair dyeing is often prone to many diseases

Mild reactions, allergies, irritation to the eyes and scalp, long-term consequences can cause cancer; The darker the dye is, the more it affects health.

December 15, 2018
The cure for silver hair does not require dyeing
Medicine - Health

The cure for silver hair does not require dyeing

Frequent visits to hair salons or home-made silver hair dyes are about to become obsolete thanks to inventions of international researchers from the Netherlands, Germany…

December 14, 2018
Treatment of Alzheimer's with dyes from lichens
Medicine - Health

Treatment of Alzheimer's with dyes from lichens

A recent study by German scientists said that a red dye from lichen plants could significantly reduce the small toxic protein sequences associated with Alzheimer's disea…

December 14, 2018
Decipher the mystery of curly hair, straight hair
Medicine - Health

Decipher the mystery of curly hair, straight hair

Hair tools, curlers and hair dyes may soon be farewell to the fashion world, when French scientists find out what causes hair to become gray and why they are curly or st…

December 14, 2018
Gloves warning of toxic substances
New technology

Gloves warning of toxic substances

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany have developed a glove that warns harmful substances in the air by changing colors immediately upon contact.

December 11, 2018
Dye color does not fade
New technology

Dye color does not fade

Scientists have discovered the natural way to create colors that never fade, thereby drawing new techniques for use in food colors and applications to avoid counterfeit…

December 11, 2018
Clothes into solar cells
New technology

Clothes into solar cells

GS Research Team. Yi Cui, of Stanford University, has successfully put carbon nanotubes (one billionths of a meter) into a dye.

December 11, 2018