Scientists Have an Unsettling Warning for People With Tattoos | Inverse

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Recently, European scientists bombarded tattooed corpses with X-rays from a particle accelerator. While it could have been a scene for an upcoming goth body horror movie, it was actually a study meant to benefit living humans with tattoos. This grisly experiment helped European nanoparticle researchers understand how tattoo ink travels in human bodies over time.

Read More: https://www.inverse.com/article/36376-tattoo-ink-lymph-nodes

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