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Body Contouring After Massive Weight Loss: What Post-Bariatric Surgery Can Achieve
After obesity surgery or major weight loss, excess skin often remains. What problems it can cause, which body-lift operations are available and…
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Benign Skin Conditions: What You Should Know
Common but often overlooked skin conditions that deserve attention The skin is the largest organ of our body and is in…
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Applications and Principles of Laser Treatment in Aesthetic Surgery
Laser treatment in aesthetic surgery: innovative technology for flawless beauty Aesthetic surgery has made enormous progress in recent decades in helping people…
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What Is Gynaecomastia?
Gynaecomastia is a benign enlargement of the male breast gland that can occur particularly in young patients after the end of puberty.…
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What Is the Difference Between a Prebiotic and a Probiotic?
The term prebiotic refers to fibre-rich dietary supplements that specifically support the gut bacteria and thus help to maintain a healthy gut…
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What Do Defect and Defect Coverage Mean in Plastic Surgery?
In medical terminology, the term defect (Latin “deficere, defectum” = to be lacking) refers to damage to, or absence of, an organ…
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What Are Nutricosmetics?
We have been encountering this relatively new term more and more in recent years. Nutricosmetics can be summarised as dietary supplements intended…
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What Is Bariatric Surgery?
The term “bariatric surgery” covers the surgical measures that contribute to weight loss in severe obesity. Surgical procedures that change the anatomy…
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CRISPR/Cas9 – The Gene Scissors Open a New Era in Genetic Engineering
Since 2012, the CRISPR/Cas9 gene scissors have become the leading method for “genome editing” and are opening up a new era in…
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Spermidine
Spermidine, also called monoaminopropylputrescine, is a biogenic polyamine and thus an intermediate product in the formation of spermine from putrescine and decarboxylated…
