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The Dermal Abyss (D-Abyss) is a project under development by Harvard Medical School researchers and by MIT researchers. D-Abyss is the perfect combination of biotechnology and tattoo artistry and is designed to use the aesthetics, permanence, and visible nature of tattoos to encode relevant information.

How does it work?
The D-Abyss render the body's surface as an interactive display by patterning biosensors into the skin to produce color changes in response to biomarker variations - including sodium, glucose, and pH. The appearance of our skin already reveals something about what id happening in our body: it can indicate the presence of diseases, lack of nutrients or our emotions. Dermal Abyss exploits this property and takes it even further revealing information that would be otherwise impossible to determine without a blood test.

The benefits
The Dermal Abyss creates direct access to the compartments in the body and reflects inner metabolic processes in the shape of a tattoo. It could be used for applications in continuously monitoring such as medical diagnostics, quantified self, and data encoding in the body.


 * The D-Abyss has been first tested on pig sin because it's very similar to the dermis in human skin and this project success in September 2017.
 * The peculiarity of the smart ink is that it merges the biosensors directly with the turning it into a display with no visible devices.
 * This is a research project and there are currently no plans to develop Dermal Abyss as a product or to pursue clinical trials.
 * D-abyss has the access of an implantable biosensor but the interactivity of a wearable device. It could be decoded by the user, other viewers, cameras.
 * D-abyss does not require electrical power or recharging, it is located inside of the skin making it permeable, insulated, body movements, postures and stretches in skin will not affect its connectivity.
 * It could help people with diabetes.
 * Can report radiotherapy applications, identifying blood types, scar camouflage and medical identification for conditions requiring special attention.
 * Making their lives much more convenient for the purposes of monitoring relevant biomarkers.