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Even the act of diagnosing allergies has become a source of confusion. Increasing reliance in recent years on a blood-based test instead of the classic skin-prick screening means that not just allergists but also pediatricians can find out if children are carrying IgE antibodies for certain foods. But some positive tests may be false alarms that lead families to spend a lot of energy avoiding common foods that their kids can actually tolerate...
Popular among bikers, rappers, and rebellious teenagers, the tattoo may become the identifying mark of a perhaps unlikely group—diabetics. Scientists at the Cambridge-based Draper laboratories are developing nanoparticle tattoo ink that changes color to indicate glucose levels in the skin. The researchers are aiming to test the ink on mice by the end of the month, said Heather Clark, a member of Draper’s biomedical engineering group. The small tattoos could replace the often painful finger-pricks that diabetics endure up to twelve times a day to monitor their blood glucose levels...
...occupying the other side of my Starbucks counter just started softly singing “I’ve Got You Under My Skin.” This would never happen at Lamont...
...opening passages Farrell signals the vastness of his literary ambition - and then brilliantly brings it off in the ensuing 500-odd pages. "When you staggered outside into the sweltering night," he writes of Singapore, "you would have been able to inhale that incomparable smell of incense, of warm skin, of meat cooking in coconut oil, of money and frangipani, and hair-oil and lust and sandalwood ... a perfume like the breath of life itself." (See 10 things to do in Singapore...
...beauty. Jonathan Rendell, Christie's point man on the auction, says Saint Laurent's collecting quest undoubtedly helped feed his vision of couture. "The textures and the structure are the first thing you notice," he says as he tours the apartment, singling out several cubist works, a 1928 leopard-skin bench by Gustave Miklos, and a 15th century tapestry. "And then you see how fundamental the colors are. He was greatly influenced by Matisse." Known for his precision in his atelier, at home Saint Laurent would constantly make tiny adjustments to where certain paintings hung or where a footstool stood...