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[Life Science Alliance] Knockdown of VDAC1 increased free cytosolic Ca2+ in cultured melanocytes at the resting state, which activated calcineurin through the Ca2+-calmodulin-CaN pathway.

[Journal of Controlled Release] Scientists proposed a nanoinducer based on a functional dermatan sulfate (DS) for melanoma. This nanosystem is composed of DS as framework, aromatic thioketal derivative as functional grafting unit and doxorubicin designed as an immunogenic cell death inducer.

[Developmental Cell] Using skin as a model system and combining single-cell RNA-seq data analysis, immunofluorescence, and transgenic mouse models, investigators showed that the transmembrane protein embigin is specifically expressed in the sebaceous gland and that the number of embigin-expressing cells is negatively regulated by Wnt.