Listen to Barb Gross as she recommends Scaled by J.T. Ashmore.
This is Barb Gross with the Sioux City Public Library, and you’re listening to “Check it Out.”
Today, I’m recommending Scaled
, Book One of the
Deep Skin young adult trilogy by J.T. Ashmore, which is a pen name for two brilliant local writers you may recognize. Tricia Currans-Sheehan and Jeanne Emmons, both well-known for their years at Briar Cliff University, teamed up to write
Scaled and the other two books in this science fiction series.
In the opening scene of the book, a meteor carrying alien DNA strikes the Earth in the Midwest. Zack, a teenager living close to the crash site, rushes out to investigate and becomes “infected.” He and many other teens start to develop iridescent scales on their bodies, which causes widespread alarm among authorities who fear that the condition is contagious and could be the start of a pandemic.
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Kao and Tsukuba Univ. Scientists Devise Technique to Visualize the Depths of Skin Wrinkling January 11, 2021 Contact Author Rachel Grabenhofer
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Joint research from Kao Corp. and the Computational Optics Group at the University of Tsukuba aims to uncover deep insights on wrinkle formation utilizing a non-invasive imaging technique known as Jones matrix-optical coherence tomography (JM-OCT).
According to the authors, with further improvement, this method could help to elucidate the relationship between wrinkles and deep structural changes in the various layers of skin. Initial results were published in
As Kao explained, previous researchers have indicated that the process of wrinkle formation is influenced by structural changes in the tissue density and collagen fibers of each of the skin layers. This is due to various factors such as aging and chronic exposure to ultraviolet light. However, the extent to which these structural changes in each tiss
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