Author: Dan Garisto / Source: Science News
Tattoos may have staying power because of a hand off between generations of immune cells known as macrophages, say a group of French researchers.
If true, this would overturn notions that tattoo ink persists in connective tissue or in long-lasting macrophages.
Immunologist Sandrine Henri of the Immunology Center of Marseille-Luminy, in France, and colleagues tattooed mice tails with green ink to see how waste-disposing macrophages in the skin would respond.
“Macrophages will scavenge everything. That’s their job,”…
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