DISPENSARY CORNER 30 March 16
March 30, 2016
GOTTA love that T-shirt.
Smell Dating, or love at first
whiff, is a the new matchmaking
service that helps singles sniff
out their perfect match by nosing
their way through well-worn
T-shirts from potential lovers.
Described as an art project (?)
the exercise is the brainchild of
artist Tega Brain, who teaches
at New York’s School for Poetic
Computation, and Sam Lavigne,
an editor and researcher at New
York University.
The first 100 clients wear a
standard T-shirt for three days
without washing it (??) then mail
it back to the “Sweat Shop” at
New York University.
The shirts were cut into
swatches which were then sent in
batches of ten to clients who were
to identify their chosen preferred
pheromone with no knowledge
of age, gender or other interests,
and a mutual attraction triggered
a match-up.
No news yet on success rates,
but at this stage it’s fair to assume
that Tinder, RSVP and OK Cupid
are still safe business models.
MEANWHILE, cancer patients
could soon be able to find out if
their chemotherapy is working
from as few as eight hours after
first treatment.
Researchers at Brigham and
Women’s Hospital were effectively
able to “light up” cells the
moment chemotherapy started
working, using a nanoparticle
that delivers a drug and then
fluoresces green when cancer
cells begin dying.
The findings may mean patients
will one day be able to move on
to another treatment earlier, if
chemotherapy is not effective.
Scientists now plan to see
whether the findings can be
replicated in humans.
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