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Artificial pigmentation of your skin

  • 07-06-2018 5:20am
    #1
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,303 ✭✭✭✭


    Looking at
    https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-discovered-a-chemical-that-causes-any-skin-type-to-tan (which I read)
    brought me to
    https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(17)30684-8 (which I skimmed, but stopped when it got really scientific).

    As someone who doesn't tan well, this interests me. I note it's from a year ago, and wondering if anyone here has read about it? My field isn't biology, so although hopeful, I realise that it'll probably be a while before this is available for the public (although it'll probably be costly).

    So I'm wondering; is this a load of nonsense, or would this be able to be done? Seems the delay is that human skin is tougher than rodent skin, bu I wonder if they have progressed to human trials yet?


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  • #2
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,098 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    the_syco wrote: »

    So I'm wondering; is this a load of nonsense, or would this be able to be done? Seems the delay is that human skin is tougher than rodent skin, bu I wonder if they have progressed to human trials yet?

    I could be misreading it but it looks like they are taking the idea of working around the gene issues and boosting production through another pathway.

    It certainly looks plausible but I imagine it is 10 years away at least as it looks like early stage research, so they will have to go through all the other phases if this looks promising.


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