From minimalist wrist designs to full sleeves, body art has become so common that it barely raises an eyebrow. But while the ...

A recent study revealed that inks used in making tattoos affect the immune system, while the risks of infection from needles ...

When amateur artist Cristina Zavaleta signed up to take an illustration class with Pixar animators on character design, she had no idea she’d also be embarking on a new scientific study. At the time, ...

Tattoos can hold a lot of different meanings. Throughout history, they've been used to communicate status, culture, identity and nowadays merely for fashion. But in the future they could also have ...

Anyone who has seen a newborn in a hospital NICU knows the image is shocking. Wires and electrodes designed to monitor vital signals such as heart rate, brain signals and blood oxygen levels are taped ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Historically, if you received a tattoo within a year, you were not allowed to donate blood, but that has recently changed. Individuals with tattoos used to have to wait 12 ...

Scientists from Harvard Medical School and MIT have designed a tattoo ink that can monitor a person’s health by changing color to indicate dehydration or an increased blood sugar level, for example.

In the last decade, the number of Americans with at least one tattoo has grown nearly 50 percent, from 21 percent in 2012 to an estimated 30 percent, according to an Ipsos poll conducted in 2019. And ...

Many people get a tattoo as a means of making a statement. Thanks to new research into permanent tattoos that change color in response to certain biomarkers, that statement could one day be something ...

MANASQUAN -- Growing up in an artistic family in Freehold and Howell, Tym Roth loved to draw and appreciated the particular brand of creativity involved in tattooing — so much so that as an adult, he ...

Tired of unlocking your Moto X smartphone with a password or a PIN? Now you will be able to unlock it with a digital tattoo. Motorola said in a blog post that an average smartphone user spends 2.3 ...