{"id":19679,"date":"2016-04-08T11:24:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T16:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19679"},"modified":"2016-04-08T11:24:33","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T16:24:33","slug":"beauty-secrets-of-the-spies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19679","title":{"rendered":"Beauty Secrets of the Spies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BEAUTY SECRETS OF THE SPIES<\/a><\/h3>\n

CIA\u2019s Venture Capital Arm Is Funding Skin Care Products That Collect DNA<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

S<\/span>KINCENTIAL SCIENCES, a\u00a0company with an innovative line of\u00a0cosmetic products\u00a0marketed as a way to erase\u00a0blemishes and soften skin, has caught the attention of\u00a0beauty<\/a>\u00a0bloggers<\/a>\u00a0on YouTube, Oprah\u2019s lifestyle\u00a0magazine<\/a>, and celebrity skin care\u00a0professionals<\/a>. Documents obtained by\u00a0The Intercept<\/em>reveal that the firm has\u00a0also attracted interest and funding from In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the Central Intelligence Agency.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The previously undisclosed relationship with the CIA might come as some surprise to a visitor to the website of\u00a0Clearista<\/a>, the main product line of Skincential Sciences, which\u00a0boasts<\/a>\u00a0of a \u201cformula so you can feel confident and beautiful in your skin\u2019s most natural state.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though the public-facing side of the company touts a range of skin care products, Skincential Sciences developed a patented technology that removes a thin outer layer of the skin, revealing unique biomarkers that can be used for a variety of diagnostic tests, including DNA collection.<\/p>\n

Skincential Science\u2019s\u00a0noninvasive procedure, described on the Clearista website as \u201cpainless<\/a>,\u201d is said to require only water, a special detergent, and a few brushes against the skin, making it\u00a0a convenient option for\u00a0restoring the glow of a youthful complexion \u2014 and a novel technique for gathering information about a person\u2019s biochemistry.<\/p>\n

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A screen grab from the Clearista website. \u00a0 \u00a0 Image: Clearista.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In-Q-Tel, founded in 1999 by then-CIA Director George Tenet,\u00a0identifies cutting-edge technology to\u00a0support the mission of the CIA and other intelligence agencies, and provides venture funding to help\u00a0grow tech firms to develop\u00a0those solutions.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur company is an outlier for In-Q-Tel,\u201d Russ Lebovitz, the chief executive of Skincential Sciences, said during an interview with\u00a0The Intercept<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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BEAUTY SECRETS OF THE SPIES CIA\u2019s Venture Capital Arm Is Funding Skin Care Products That Collect DNA SKINCENTIAL SCIENCES, a\u00a0company with an innovative line of\u00a0cosmetic products\u00a0marketed as a way to erase\u00a0blemishes and soften skin, has caught the attention of\u00a0beauty\u00a0bloggers\u00a0on YouTube, Oprah\u2019s lifestyle\u00a0magazine, and celebrity skin care\u00a0professionals. Documents obtained by\u00a0The Interceptreveal that the firm has\u00a0also attracted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[135,13354,11587,13355,5567],"class_list":["post-19679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-cia","tag-dna","tag-lee-fang","tag-skin-care-products","tag-the-intercept"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19681,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19679\/revisions\/19681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}