00:00what if you never had to worry about painful sunburns or sun damage ever again well that's
00:08what researchers are suggesting with their new super cream and it's all based on synthetic
00:13melanin it's a hyper regenerative cream one that both protects skin while healing it at the same
00:18time the cream is being developed by scientists at northwestern university and they say it could
00:23revolutionize the skincare industry it works by trapping what are called free radicals or
00:28electrons that are not bound in a pair they're naturally occurring but toxic however our bodies
00:33have an enzyme system which deals with them quite well still at the point of an injury like say a
00:37sunburn many more free radicals are produced and the body might not be able to deal adequately on its
00:42own sometimes leading to skin cancer melanin is one way our body deals with those free radicals but
00:48the new synthetic melanin engineered nanoparticles are much better at it with the researchers saying
00:53about their new cream quote the synthetic melanin is capable of scavenging more radicals per
00:57gram compared to human melanin it's like super melanin it's biocompatible degradable non-toxic and clear
01:04when rubbed onto the skin and they add it has a regenerative healing property when applied as well
01:08instigating an immune response without inflammation
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