Engineering a second skin

MIT researchers artificial skin will make you look 10 years younger. A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed an artificial skin that will shave years off your life by reducing wrinkles and removing the bags under the eyes. The properties of the material give it an elasticity and durability that mimic healthy, youthful skin. When it is applied as a second layer over your existing skin, nobody will know that you are wearing it because it is so thin that it is almost invisible. The second skin eventually loses its elasticity and the next day your face returns to its normal appearance. Besides its potential for cosmetic use, researchers hope to use the second skin in a variety of medical applications. Its an invisible layer that can provide a barrier, provide cosmetic improvement, and potentially deliver a drug locally to the area thats being treated. Those three things together could really make it ideal for use in humans, .