It is not yet known if the chemicals will also help tackle malignant melanoma, the least common but most deadly type of skin cancer.

BBC: Tea lotion could stop skin cancer

Also in the cancer cluster were squamous cell carcinoma, a type of skin cancer, and throat cancer, but these had fewer genetic links between them.

WSJ: Genes May Link Disparate Diseases

Most people with this type of albinism have milky white skin, white hair and blue eyes at birth.

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Government-funded studies have found that this particular type of vitamin A may increase risk of skin cancer when used on sun-exposed skin.

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They used stem cells from a human embryo, which are capable of becoming any other type of cell in the human body from nerve to skin, muscle to kidney.

BBC: Deaf gerbils 'hear again' after stem cell cure

It involves gentle manipulation of the bones and stretching of the skin through casting, followed by the child wearing a particular type of boots.

BBC: Superdoctors - one small step

After several days, the ball of cells that results contains a blanket of embryonic stem cells endowed with the genetic material of the donor skin cell, which have the ability to generate every cell type from that donor.

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They took a sample of human skin cells and converted it into stem cells, which are capable of becoming any other type of cell in the body.

BBC: Skin 'may restore' diseased MS brain

The weather, so balmy in June, reverted to rainy type in July, confounding predictions of a prolonged scorcher, leaving the meteorologists red-faced and the skin of stay-at-home Britons pallid.

ECONOMIST: Britain��s long, hot-and-cold summer of uncertainty