A North Carolina researcher is using citizen science and monkey sweat to determine whether the current TikTok and Instagram obsession with skincare routines may be doing more harm than good in terms of human health.
Dr. Julie Horvath is the head of the Genomics & Microbiology Research Lab at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and also an Associate Research Professor at North Carolina Central University.
She’s studying personal hygiene and its effects on the microbes on our skin – by taking samples from people’s arm pits and from the underarms of other primates, “to really understand what lives on human skin, what lives on monkey skin, how might humans and monkeys be similar and/or different.”…