Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. We’ve been wearing gold as jewellery for centuries, but now the beauty industry has found an unusual use for the ...

A KOREAN woman's hands glowed with gold fragments in x-rays, a new report has shown. But she was not some kind of medical marvel - the woman had been using the practice of gold-thread acupuncture for ...

Our fascination with the written word is brought vividly to life in 'The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing', a charming account of the history of writing, finds Jane Shilling. Half a century after I ...

The gold thread facelift - it sounds incredible and gruesome in equal measure. Using just needle and thread, a finely woven 24-carat mesh framework is sewn under the surface of the skin where it ...