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skin care

Doctor holding a cell phone

Daniel Sone, National Institute of Health

Google's new dermatology app misses the mark for BIPOC people

The technology was trained on 64,387 images, only a tiny portion of which featured dark-skinned people

Simon Spichak
tattoo woman

tattoo woman

Anna Shvets from Pexels 

Good news for people with tattoos: your skin still works

Research shows that tattooed skin functions just as well as non-tattooed skin

Stephanie Zimmer
A photo of the skin around someone's spine, with some sand scattered here and there.

Photo by Kristaps Grundsteins on Unsplash 

Scientists can diagnose skin diseases like eczema with tiny zaps of electricity into your skin

But you won't feel it; 225 small, small pins can diagnose damage by specific skin layer

Stephanie Zimmer

NIAID / Flickr

How a failed psoriasis study pushed a whole field forward

Sometimes research misses are crucial data points

Sam Herron