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Could A Pill Provide Protection From The Sun?

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Imagine being protected from the sun, without putting on sunscreen?

This could become a reality.  British researchers are working on a pill that will use hormones to increase melanin.  This would, in turn, block the sun's harmful u-v rays.  

This pill could be available to the pubic in about five years.

 

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