A team of research scientists from the Avon Skincare Institute (ASI) presented a new breakthrough in anti-aging skincare at this week’s Summer Conference of The American Academy of Dermatology (AAD), which represents the largest association of dermatologists in the country.
Dr. John Lyga, Director of Skin Bioscience and Dr. Uma Santhanam, Director of Cell Biology and Clinical Efficacy at ASI explained that their team has solved a key piece of the skin aging puzzle in their presentation of two posters, “Dynein is Necessary for Intracellular Transport of Both Nutrients and Autophagosomes in Human Dermal Fibroblasts” and “A role for Autophagy in Skin Aging.”
The ASI scientists began their research with a question: Why does skin develop lines and wrinkles and lose firmness as we age? The team first focused their research on a key