FARK.com: (7203071) Good news, parents. If your kid asks you this summer what causes sunburn, you can tell them that UV radiation fractures and tangles non-coding micro-RNA which provokes an inflammatory response in nearby cells which helps remove damaged cells

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		Good news, parents. If your kid asks you this summer what causes sunburn, you can tell them that UV radiation fractures and tangles non-coding micro-RNA which provokes an inflammatory response in nearby cells which helps remove damaged cells (medicalxpress.com)		13
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Sybarite		2012-07-09 09:57:03 AM

I just tell them it's God's way of warning them that they'll burn in Hell if they don't behave.

Weidbrewer		2012-07-09 12:51:43 PM

I'm not sure what any of that means, but I can assure you, my micro-RNA got really radiation fractured and tangled yesterday when I spent a day on a boat with apparently defective sunblock.

Kuroshin		2012-07-09 12:52:04 PM

I just tell them that it's because they touch themselves at night.

pivazena		2012-07-09 01:06:28 PM

okay... i'm embarrassed to say this because i'm a biologist but... sunburns aren't actually burns, they're inflammation?

cooooooollllllll

NotARocketScientist		2012-07-09 01:13:24 PM

okay... i'm embarrassed to say this because i'm a biologist but... sunburns aren't actually burns, they're inflammation?

It does explain how my skin can be really burnt bad one day and completely white the next. I know nothing else that un-burns. If it is just inflammation, it makes sense.

GoddessofSnowandIce		2012-07-09 01:15:04 PM

Or in my case, the inflammatory response is so bad that I have to take steroids just to keep my skin from melting off of me in giant ulcers. Hooray for photosensitive autoimmune disorders!

/Lupus sucks
//lives in a bubble
///Dr. House was wrong

dittybopper		2012-07-09 01:40:42 PM

It also turns tosserlads into stone:

www.soundonsight.org

dittybopper		2012-07-09 01:41:26 PM

Forgot to mention, it explodes ringlefinches and mountain kings.

barefoot in the head		2012-07-09 01:51:41 PM

If teachers can't apply sunscreen, they might as well tell the kids all that instead. It will help just as much.

OldRod		2012-07-09 02:27:14 PM

Weidbrewer: I'm not sure what any of that means, but I can assure you, my micro-RNA got really radiation fractured and tangled yesterday when I spent a day on a boat with apparently defective ~~sunblock~~ micro-RNA de-fracturer, de-tangler.

FTFY :)

BKITU		2012-07-09 02:31:54 PM

pivazena: okay... i'm embarrassed to say this because i'm a biologist but... sunburns aren't actually burns, they're inflammation?

cooooooollllllll

I wouldn't say that. I once had a second-degree sunburn over most of my face and neck. Straight inflammation shouldn't blister.

/Back in the dark ages of sunblock, it apparently washed off in a cool breeze.
//A week of camping later, I almost went to the hospital.

pivazena		2012-07-09 02:37:06 PM

BKITU: pivazena: okay... i'm embarrassed to say this because i'm a biologist but... sunburns aren't actually burns, they're inflammation?

cooooooollllllll

I wouldn't say that. I once had a second-degree sunburn over most of my face and neck. Straight inflammation shouldn't blister.

/Back in the dark ages of sunblock, it apparently washed off in a cool breeze.
//A week of camping later, I almost went to the hospital.

what about irritation from rubbing? that's an inflammatory response, looks like blister burns.

Cybernetic		2012-07-09 02:52:15 PM

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