Google is making human skin as part of research into “wristband that can detect cancer,” reports the Independent: Google has been making synthetic human skin as part of work to create a…
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As long as it isn’t colored like the faux-flesh furniture. via Mashable: Concerns about airplane safety are are at a fever pitch thanks to the very visible nature of plane crashes in the past…
I don’t think I’ll be buying the chair and stool anytime soon, but I’d definitely be willing to try it out if ever given the opportunity. via Wired: “Children have been one of…
Fresh on the heels of that post about engagement rings being a huge scam comes the story of an Icelandic artist who surgically removed some of his own skin in order to…
Via National Geographic, an in-action look at an experimental “skin gun” that can heal burn victims in minutes. The device sprays skin cells in airbrush-like fashion, allowing for new layers of skin to be painted on. In a few decades, will this be a standard device in any emergency technician’s toolbelt?
The robots of the future will have soft skin with as refined and sensitive a sense of touch as ours. Smell and taste are now the biggest hurtles in terms of replicating…
By Clive Cookson for the Financial Times: Stem cell scientists at Stanford University in California announced “a huge step forward” last night, with the publication of research that turned skin into nerve…