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l’Oréal Patents Cosmetic Use of Lacritin-Type Polypeptides

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By: TOM BRANNA

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US Patent No. 9,168,215 B2; L’Oréal Paris has patented a method for characterizing a condition of skin. The method entails the following steps: A) performing, in a first sample isolated from skin, a quantitative measurement of at least one polypeptide of amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 4, or a nucleic acid sequence encoding said at least one polypeptide; and B) comparing said measurement to a reference measurement, wherein the reference measurement is obtained from a quantita...

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