#tattooscience

[stickandpokekit]

very cool....tattoos may soon be life saving body art. Basically, the color of the tattoo would change in response to the change in chemistry of the tattooed, thus providing advance warning of liver or kidney failure. It’s like a permanent test always happening on your body! ⚗️🔬🦠🧫... ... ... #tattooscience #scienceoftattoos #indicatortattoos #tattooindicator https://www.instagram.com/p/B0RSly-BpsH/?igshid=ohandxb1xxiw

[leafybaphomet]

How Do Tattoos Stay in Our Skin?

We all thought we knew how our fresh beautiful new ink stayed under our skin but new information has been found by a team of scientists in France that better explains how your ink stays for life.  The way our tattoos longevity was scientifically explained before this new information was that the ink being injected into your inner layer of skin, the dermis, made your immune system kick into action.  This kick begins with the white blood cells called macrophages essentially “eating” the dye particles like it would any other foreign particles.  These ink “swallowing” macrophages use to be the reasoning for the longevity of our tattoos, however, according to the new study done by researchers in France this isn't how it works at all!  By experimenting with tattooed mice they found that the ink swallowing macrophages don't live forever and when the researchers killed macrophages that held ink with toxic injections the tattoos still stayed in place.  If the macrophages were the reason for your tattoo holding its place and vibrancy then killing them off would either change the tattoo or cause it to fall out completely.  Instead your tattoo is actually held in place through a system in your skin tissue.  Once the ink holding macrophages died they released their ink loads which were then picked up by other immune cells in that area of tissue.  This capture and release type system can occur without any portion of the tattoo vanishing and is sort of like a relay race in your skin to hold your tattoo in place!

Image taken as a still shot from Tattooing Close Up in Slow Motion by Smarter Every Day on Youtube

Here are some links if you’d like to read more!

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/if-the-cells-of-our-skin/

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/why-do-tattoos-last-forever-n854256

[lovedtodeathshop]

Body art meets popular science in this elegant, mind-blowing collection, written by renowned science writer Carl Zimmer. Showcasing hundreds of eye-catching tattoos that pay tribute to various scientific disciplines, from evolutionary biology and neuroscience to mathematics and astrophysics, Science Ink reveals the stories of the individuals who chose to inscribe their obsessions in their skin. Best of all, each tattoo provides a leaping-off point for bestselling essayist and lecturer Zimmer to reflect on the science in question, whether it's the importance of an image of Darwin's finches or the significance of the uranium atom inked into the chest of a young radiologist. Cool nerd stuff ;) Link in bio @lovedtodeath #lovedtodeath #ltd #ltdboutique #ltdgallery #haightshopping #sanfrancisco #haight #haightashbury #summeroflove #oddities #odditiessf #science #tattoos #tattooculture #tattooscience (at Loved To Death and LTD)

[debso]

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[schandelmeierart]

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