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from The Atlantic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tattoos Do Odd Things to the Immune System<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

When you stick ink-filled needles into your skin, your body\u2019s defenders respond accordingly. Scientists aren\u2019t sure if that\u2019s good or bad for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Katherine J. Wu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 2018, I paid a man a couple hundred dollars to repeatedly jam several needles into the skin of my right wrist. I felt as if I were being attacked by a microscopic cavalry of crabs. Into every jab went black ink, eventually forming the shape of double quotation marks. It was my first tattoo, and likely not my last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the\u00a0thousands of years<\/a>\u00a0that tattoos have been around, not much has changed. The practice still involves carving wounds into permanent, inked-in shapes that we find aesthetically pleasing. But much of tattooing remains mysterious: Scientists still aren\u2019t sure what makes certain tattoos fade fast, why others stick around when they\u2019re\u00a0supposed to disappear<\/a>, or how they\u00a0react to light<\/a>. One of the strangest and least-studied enigmas, though, is how tattoos survive at all. Our immune system is constantly doing its darndest to destroy them\u2014and understanding why it fails could clue us in to one of our bodies\u2019 most important functions, even when we leave the skin blank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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