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Published On September 22, 2006
TECHNOLOGY
No Regrets
Disappearing ink could allow tattoo removal without the scars.
Regret—that’s what many people with tattoos eventually feel about their body art. Yet the only recourse is a series of laser treatments that leave scars. Doing nothing is not appealing either: Inks include carcinogens such as industrial-grade carbon black and compounds found in auto-body paint. For those whose body art is still on the drawing board, Rox Anderson, director of the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital, has invented bio-resorbable ink encased in polymer beads that burst and disappear after a single treatment.
Dispatches

What Makes a Kid Clumsy? More research into coordination disorders shows why some children are more prone to trip, fumble and spill the milk.

Eyes in the Sky Satellite data can be used to assess the health impact of dust storms and the spread of mosquito-borne diseases. Additional applications could be on the horizon.

Could This One Change Help Curb the Opioid Crisis? To prescribe an effective bridge to addiction treatment, emergency physicians must get special training and receive a waiver. Making that process easier—or eliminating the requirement altogether—could make a big impact.

One Thing Leads to the Next Robert Lefkowitz is best known for revealing the mechanism behind hundreds of drugs in use today. But he thinks of himself as a storyteller first and has a new book out to make his case.

Podcast: The Research Year That Was Medical research labs have faced a difficult stretch of closed buildings and competing priorities. Yet they have also produced milestone discoveries—and not only on COVID-19.

The Shape of Us Two milestone discoveries in protein modeling promise to change the fundamentals of drug discovery.

Universal Flu Vaccines Move Forward In the shadow of coronavirus vaccine development, another vaccine was making solid progress.

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The Neuroscience of Giving Up
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