When you get a tattoo, your body mounts a battle against the ink. So how do ankle flowers and bicep hearts stick around so long? Researchers took a look at specialized cells that gobble up the ink.

From the mice's tail tattoos, Henri and her colleagues identified one type of cell that captured ink particles and stayed in place, the dermal macrophage.

The second "Tats for Tails" at the Baltimore Tattoo Museum was held on Sunday. The museum says the fundraiser, benefitting the Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter (BARCS) raised over $12,000 ...

On Saturday, Oct. 19, the Portland tattoo parlor Dark Harbor Tattoo Society hosted the fourth Tats 4 Tails event, a day-long tattooing event from which all profits were donated to local animal ...

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Mad House Ink held a two-day event called “Tats for Tails.” The shop offered tattoos for $50 with proceeds going to the White Oak Animal Safe Haven.

Even when the researchers grafted one mouse's tail tattoo onto another mouse's back, the second mouse's own macrophages carried the skin graft's tattoo. "The cells from the graft died and released the ...

They wondered if the same process occurred in tattoos. Tattooing green stripes on the tails of albino mice (via stick-and-poke), the immunologists confirmed that macrophages sequestered the ink.

We think of tattoos as fixed adornments. Plunge ink deep enough into the skin and there it will sit, suspended in subterranean connective tissue forever. The Cells That Eat, Regurgitate and Eat ...