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New Skin? A Plastic That Heals Itself, Conducts Electricity, and is Sensitive To Touch

New Skin? A Plastic That Heals Itself, Conducts Electricity, and is Sensitive To Touch | Science News | Scoop.it
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Man's Healthy Skin Sexually Attractive to Women

Man's Healthy Skin Sexually Attractive to Women | Science News | Scoop.it
In the game of love and sex, beautiful skin may draw the line between winners and losers: Women find men with a healthy skin color more appealing than those with a masculine face, new research shows.
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[VIDEO] Here’s what it looks like when you turn human skin cells into neural stem cells

"Brain neural stem cells derived from human skin cells: these stem cells express typical marker genes of brain neocortical stem cells, such as Pax6 (Red fluorescent labeled), and form a rosette structure resembling the transection of the neural tube."

More: http://io9.com/5888801/heres-what-it-looks-like-when-you-turn-human-skin-cells-into-neural-stem-cells

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The Skin is Also a Map

The Skin is Also a Map | Science News | Scoop.it

We did not randomly feel the world, but that our brain created a special map that represented our skin surface. This map of the skin surface is in the same place in everyone’s brain, and is called the primary sensory cortex (or somatosensory cortex, see below).


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