CuriosiTEA Journal Club 

Story by CuriosiTEA JC Team Original Research Article: Nakatsuji, Hata et al., Nature Medicine, 2021.Journal link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01256-2 Scientists found a friendly type of bacteria on healthy human skin that can fight a harmful germ linked to eczema. The friendly bacteria are called Staphylococcus hominis A9 (ShA9). When the scientists put ShA9 in a lotion and tested it on people with eczema, it was safe and lowered the amount of the harmful germ on ecz

​Story by CuriosiTEA JC Team Original Research Article: Lee et al., The Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2025. Journal link: https://www.jci.org/articles/view/175562; https://www.jci.org/articles/view/188708 Scientists found that an ATF6 mutation (broken gene) causes both vision loss and hearing loss. People already knew this gene mattered for the eyes. A broken ATF6 can cause achromatopsia, which means a person can't see color. But this study found the same gene also mat