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SCIENTISTS ENGINEER HUMAN CELLS TO HAVE THE CAMOUFLAGE ABILITY OF SQUIDS by: FRANK LANDYMORE Squids and octopuses are some of the most mesmerizing creatures of our oceans, endowed with a unique ability to fluidly change the color and transparency of their skin. This gives them an almost otherworldly aura — and to the scientists trying to understand the mechanisms behind their active camouflage, they might as well be. That's because squid skin cells can't be cultured in a lab, making them almost impossible to study. But now, some intrepid researchers have come up with a clever workaround: replicating squids' camouflage ability in human cells instead. "We had this crazy idea to see whether we could capture some aspect of the ability of squid skin tissues to change transparency within human cell cultures," said Alon Gorodetsky, who presented his team's findings at a meeting of the American Chemical Society, in a press release. Cell Shading The