{"id":70424,"date":"2017-06-17T14:22:38","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T21:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/this-tattoo-changes-colors-as-your-blood-sugar-levels-change"},"modified":"2017-06-17T14:22:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T21:22:38","slug":"this-tattoo-changes-colors-as-your-blood-sugar-levels-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/this-tattoo-changes-colors-as-your-blood-sugar-levels-change","title":{"rendered":"This Tattoo Changes Colors As Your Blood Sugar Levels Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-tattoo-changes-colors-as-your-blood-sugar-levels-change.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whether or not you like tattoos (or have one yourself), you\u2019ll have to admit\u2014these are pretty cool. Scientists have developed something called a \u201cbiosensing\u201d tattoo that could help change the lives of people living with types 1 or 2 diabetes. How could a tattoo do this, you ask? Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/health-and-medicine\/biosensing-tattoo-changes-color-blood-sugar-levels-change\/\" target=\"_blank\">by changing color<\/a> along with the person\u2019s blood sugar levels.<\/p>\n<p>This new tattoo is the hard work of a team of researchers from Harvard and MIT who call the project Dermal Abyss. The researchers replaced traditional tattoo ink with color-changing \u201cbiosensors\u201d that react to variations in the interstitial fluid, which surrounds tissue cells in the human body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt blends advances in biotechnology with traditional methods in tattoo artistry,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media.mit.edu\/projects\/d-Abyss\/overview\/\" target=\"_blank\">the team writes on their website<\/a>. \u201cCurrently\u2026 diabetics need to monitor their glucose levels by piercing the skin, 3 to 10 times per day. With Dermal Abyss, we imagine the future where the painful procedure is replaced with a tattoo. Thus, the user could monitor the color changes and the need of insulin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplemost.com\/tattoo-changes-colors-along-blood-sugar-levels\/?utm_campaign=bomlaicos&utm_medium=partner&utm_source=facebook&partner=bomlaicos&utm_content=3254\">https:\/\/www.simplemost.com\/tattoo-changes-colors-along-blood...ntent=3254<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether or not you like tattoos (or have one yourself), you\u2019ll have to admit\u2014these are pretty cool. Scientists have developed something called a \u201cbiosensing\u201d tattoo that could help change the lives of people living with types 1 or 2 diabetes. How could a tattoo do this, you ask? Well, by changing color along with the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70424","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\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}