No more lying about your age: Scientists can now gauge skin’s true age with new laser technique
Thursday, December 13, 2012 - 12:30
in Biology & Nature
While most of us can recognize the signs of lost youth when we peer into the mirror each morning, scientists do not have a standardized way to measure the extent of age damage in skin. Now a group of Taiwanese researchers has used a specialized microscope to peer harmlessly beneath the skin surface to measure natural age-related changes in the sizes of skin cells.