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'Second Skin' Makes Wrinkles Disappear
The fountain of youth isn’t actually a fountain, it’s an elastic 'second skin.' Scientists at Harvard, MIT and Olivo Labs have developed a polymer mixture that is applied as two creams and when it sets, is less than a millimeter thick and makes wrinkles disappear. The breakthrough in aging was recently published in the journal Nature Materials .
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readThe fountain of youth isn’t actually a fountain, it’s an elastic 'second skin.' Scientists at Harvard, MIT and Olivo Labs have developed a polymer mixture that is applied as two creams and when it sets, is less than a millimeter thick and makes wrinkles disappear. The breakthrough in aging was recently published in the journal Nature Materials.
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