{"id":254779,"date":"2016-12-21T12:51:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T16:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=493e0eefeea9dc204fddaa25c43275ae"},"modified":"2016-12-21T12:51:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T16:51:03","slug":"tattoos-mark-the-spot-for-surgery-then-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=254779","title":{"rendered":"Tattoos mark the spot\u2014for surgery\u2014then disappear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tattoos aren&#8217;t just for body art. They can have medical applications, too. Doctors are using them on patients to mark an area for future treatment\u2014particularly for non-melanoma skin cancer such as basal cell carcinoma\u2014but the inks can cause problems. Now scientists have developed a better solution. In the journal ACS Nano, they report a new ink that glows only under certain light conditions and can disappear altogether after a period of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tattoos aren&#8217;t just for body art. They can have medical applications, too. Doctors are using them on patients to mark an area for future treatment&mdash;particularly for non-melanoma skin cancer such as basal cell carcinoma&mdash;but the inks can cause problems. Now scientists have developed a better solution. In the journal ACS Nano, they report a new ink that glows only under certain light conditions and can disappear altogether after a period of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254780,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254779\/revisions\/254780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}