The closest thing out there to LED photomodulation is a controversial procedure called nonablative laser treatment, which uses heat to burn away sub-surface skin so that new cells will replace it.
This involves putting minute quantities of common foods below the surface of the skin, usually on the arm or the back.
The cells that make up our bodies are outnumbered within and on the surface of our skin by microorganisms by a factor of 10 to 1.
Kidney cancer had spread to his lungs and one tumor became so big it ate through his sternum and bulged right through the surface of his skin.
These cells pile up on the surface of the skin when the body cannot shed them fast enough, leading to unsightly patches of raised red skin covered by a flaky white build-up.
This film is form-fitted onto an audio device and creates wide area surface contact with the skin, or the inside of the ear canal.
In a process called LED photomodulation, the light stimulates the production of cell-producing proteins under the skin's surface.
There's barely time to understand what's happening before a flash of silver whale's skin breaks the surface, dips beneath a wave and plunges down to the dark fathoms of the North Atlantic.
The magic, it turns out, is in that subatomic spray, as the group treated with an electron shower benefited from a polymerizing effect or, more plainly, a bonding of molecules just above the skin's surface that yielded a tough, protective nano-layer measuring between 50- to 100-billionths of a meter thick.
Much of that time he devoted to rubbing his skin with alcohol and covering every available surface with white tissues.
The temperature near your skin is greater than the temperature on the surface of your clothes, mainly due to a layer of trapped air near your body.
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In addition, microbes hiding in saggy skin-folds can probably convert the iodine in surface mud into an absorbable form.
In other words, you're looking at a future in which robotic hands interpret the nuances of a surface or gripped object akin to a human fingertip and artificial skin senses touch similar to the way tiny hairs on an arm do.
However, there are problems with longer-term use, as the skin constantly produces new cells, while those at the surface die and are brushed off, meaning a new sensor would need to be attached at least every fortnight.
The band can slowly shrink, moving as though it is slipping from the surface, until it becomes just a dot on the apple's skin.
Placing a heat protective barrier between the skin and laptop, or placing the computer on a hard surface is generally recommended to prevent the condition from developing.
The acceleration of lift-off would not kill something that size, and if a rock is large enough, the heat generated as it is thrown clear will be negligible except at its surface where, if anything, melting may even produce an airtight skin to protect any microbes deeper down from the unpleasant vacuum of space.
And so -- but apparently the ones that are being tested right now by all the big laboratories, they only can be used for skin cancer or places where the light can penetrate fairly close to the surface.
It harbors thick layers of valuable blubber beneath its skin, and the whales are so chunky that they float quickly to the surface after they're harpooned.
But before our skin shows a rash or we feel dizzy, there are signs brewing under the surface.
The artificial digit has a pad made from silicone to mimic the way the skin on the end of a finger moves and stretches as it drags across a surface.
To achieve a perfect sear on the fish's skin, Mr. Schwartz recommends a hybrid oven-and-stovetop preparation that crisps the surface beautifully and allows thicker fillets to cook through.
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Next, make lines and curves and dots and dashes on the surface of your choosing: paper, canvas, sandy beach, dirt floor of rustic cabin or the skin of exceptionally trusting loved one.
While the polymer's most obvious use would be for mobile devices whose entire surface areas can survive the keys in our pockets, Stanford also imagines wires that fix themselves and prosthetic limbs whose skin detects when it's bent out of shape.
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