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Day 17 news response

Madelyn Perkovich

   Recently, scientists have been exploring new ways to protect skin against the sun, and synthetic melanin may be one of the new breakthroughs. Synthetic melanin could act as a new sunscreen! Scientists bathed dopamine and made melanin-like nano particles. When the particles were incubated in a petri dish, they attached and absorbed into the skin cells like natural melanin, which could mean better protected skin cells, and less skin cancer. I think this is an incredible discovery. The only question left unanswered for me is, would the synthetic melanin change the color of the skin? If so, how much?

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