The insights into how tattoo pigments stays under the skin and only dissipates and gets blurry over many years is surprisingly recent. In 2018, a team of immunologists from the Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy in France led by Anna Baraska tested a new genetically modified mouse model that enables exploration of the human CD64 gene…Continue Reading How does the pigment stay under the skin?
48 Hours of Thursday: Ferry to American Samoa & Then Some
Thursday, July 20, 2023 The scheduled time to go to the ferry for the overnight ferry to American Samoa was something like 6pm. I was originally going to drive there and leave our rental in the parking lot. Leota didn’t feel comfortable leaving us to our own devices nor with us leaving our car in…Continue Reading 48 Hours of Thursday: Ferry to American Samoa & Then Some
Did You Say Exercise or Extra Fries?
Tuesday, July 18, 2023 Josh Lockhart, Grant Pethel, and I went down to the shipping terminal to buy ferry tickets for American Samoa. We were planning to travel to Tutuila to collect data. Tutuila is American Samoa’s main island, the Manu’a Islands the other. I had planned to go to Ta’u in the Manu’a Islands…Continue Reading Did You Say Exercise or Extra Fries?