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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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[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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How skin is wired for touch

Compared to our other senses, scientists don't know much about how our skin is wired for the sensation of touch.
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The Key to Sexy Skin in Guys Revealed

The Key to Sexy Skin in Guys Revealed | Science News | Scoop.it
Women, make some room at the makeup counter: A new study finds that, like women, men are judged as youthful and attractive based on skin tone.
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[VIDEO] Brain cells from skin cells

This is a beautiful image of human brain cells, which can now be grown from adult skin cells

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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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Touching a nerve: How every hair in skin feels touch and how it all gets to the brain

Touching a nerve: How every hair in skin feels touch and how it all gets to the brain | Science News | Scoop.it
Neuroscientists have discovered how the sense of touch is wired in the skin and nervous system. The new findings open new doors for understanding how the brain collects and processes information from hairy skin.
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New path to flex and stretch electronics: Artificial electronic skin device capable of detecting and responding to touch

New path to flex and stretch electronics: Artificial electronic skin device capable of detecting and responding to touch | Science News | Scoop.it
Researchers have developed a promising new inexpensive technique for fabricating large-scale flexible and stretchable backplanes using semiconductor-enriched carbon nanotube solutions.
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