{"id":146389,"date":"2022-09-14T13:28:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T18:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/scientists-develop-tattoos-that-are-pain-free-blood-free-and-self-administered"},"modified":"2022-09-14T13:28:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T18:28:43","slug":"scientists-develop-tattoos-that-are-pain-free-blood-free-and-self-administered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/scientists-develop-tattoos-that-are-pain-free-blood-free-and-self-administered","title":{"rendered":"Scientists develop tattoos that are pain-free, blood-free, and self-administered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-develop-tattoos-that-are-pain-free-blood-free-and-self-administered2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The method uses microneedles smaller than a grain of sand.<\/p>\n<p>Tattooing went from a subculture to pop culture in the past decades. Tattoo artists use a mechanized needle to puncture the skin and inject ink into the dermis or second layer of skin-this is not only painful but it\u2019s time-consuming.<\/p>\n<p>The patch consists of microneedles that are each smaller than a grain of sand and are made of tattoo ink encased in a dissolvable matrix.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>GEORGIA TECH<\/p>\n<p>Now researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a painless and bloodless tattoo patch that\u2019s simple enough for people to stick to themselves, according to a press release published by EurekAlert on Sept .14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The method uses microneedles smaller than a grain of sand. Tattooing went from a subculture to pop culture in the past decades. Tattoo artists use a mechanized needle to puncture the skin and inject ink into the dermis or second layer of skin-this is not only painful but it\u2019s time-consuming. The patch consists of microneedles [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}