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A Bioengineered Tattoo Monitors Blood Calcium Levels (3 of 3)

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A Bioengineered Tattoo Monitors Blood Calcium Levels (3 of 3)

video: The engineered tattoo cells produce melanin and darken when exposed to elevated calcium levels. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 18 April, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Tastanova at ETH Zurich in Basel, Switzerland, and colleagues was titled, " Synthetic biology-based cellular biomedical tattoo for detection of hypercalcemia associated with cancer." view more 

Credit: A. Tastanova <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine </i>(2018)


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