Apr 11, 2019
While we are still awaiting news about funding to analyze the samples collected last summer using the money you donated, I wanted to share with you the results from our 2017 field season. We were invited to submit a paper as part of a special issue of the American Journal of Human Biology. The following is a summary of those results that we are sharing with stakeholders and participants in the study (minus the individual results we provided to participants).
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Our team studies cultural impacts on health, specifically those of tattooing on the immune system. We expand on our previous study that suggests tattooing may "inoculate" the immune system. Our research takes place among Polynesian tattooists, who retain some of the oldest and most extensive tattooing practices in the world. We will collect saliva samples from over 100 people receiving tattoos at the Northwest Tatau Festival to examine multiple immunological factors.
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