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If you're skittish about needles, this year's flu shot will really get under your skin, and that's a good thing. The 2011-2012 vaccine is being delivered by a shorter, finer needle that injects the ...

PARIS — As the world map that leads the new tattooing exhibition at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris plots out, the art of skin alteration has roots in every continent, from the Iroquois in North ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Dissolving microneedles have been popping up in skincare products in recent months. Most often found in pimple patches, the needles are a way to implant products into ...

Researchers led by a team at INSERM and King’s College London have shown how stretching the skin stimulates immune cells and increases the skin’s ability to absorb large molecules, including those ...

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Researchers show that stretching the skin stimulates immune cells and increases the skin’s ability to absorb large molecules, including those present in vaccines. Publishing September 17 in the Cell ...