face mites
gregladen | May 22, 2013This is the question everyone eventually asks themselves. The answer is no. They live all over your body in the follicles of your hair.
But, the situation is much more complicated than that, and in fact there is a lot we don't know about these mites. But, there is a scientist who may be willing to scrape some of the mites off your face in order to advance our knowledge ... of something many people would probably not really want to know about.
We’re interested in studying the evolution and diversification of Demodex mites ...we want to use the information encoded in Demodex DNA to map the…