A recent experiment in Germany shows that botox can make people’s armpits smell better. Botox – aka “botulinum toxin” – has had a curious reputation with the public. First it was feared: it can kill, after all. Then it was cheered: the fashionable were delighted to hear that something with a hint of danger could make their wrinkles vanish. Now we are on the verge of a third, and rather different, wave of acclaim….
So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian. Read it here.