A doctor’s life would be so much easier if skin could be made transparent at will. It now turns out that this can be accomplished—and by surprisingly simple means: the application of food dye.

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A dye that helps to give Doritos their orange hue can also turn mouse tissues transparent, researchers have found. Applying the dye to the skin of live mice allowed scientists to peer through ...

Researchers have developed an ingenious way of making mice transparent, so that you can see their little organs, veins, and all their other fleshy circuitry with the naked eye. The secret?

But when mixed with a little water and daubed on the skin of mice, the dye makes their skin nearly transparent. Researchers reported the new use for the common food dye today in the journal Science.

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Because of a counterintuitive fundamental physics principle, Tartrazine, also known as Yellow 5, can temporarily turn biological tissue transparent to the naked eye, as described in a study ...

Why isn't your body transparent? Some animals such as jellyfish, zebra fish and some glass frogs have see-through bodies. But most mammals, including humans, aren't transparent. While the idea of ...

Researchers turned skin and muscle tissues of live mice transparent by applying a yellow food dye known as tartrazine, which is commonly used in snack chips and candy coating. They found the ...

In an article published in Science, Ou and his collegues report that they made the skin on the skulls and abdomens of live mice transparent by applying to the areas a mixture of water and tartrazine.

The casino in the Kurhaus at Baden-Baden, one of three spa towns where the 19th-century Russian novelist, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, gambled his money away.Credit...Felix Schmitt for The New York Times ...