Common skin microbe causes itchiness, even without inflammation

Photo credit: Orrling and Tomer S, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Article by Sean Cummings. Science – November 27, 2023.

The question of what makes us itch has itched at experts for years, with the scratchy feeling of conditions like eczema and atopic dermatitis previously being attributed to inflammation. But in a study published last week in Cell, researchers point to another culprit: […]

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