Scientists use food dye to render mouse skin transparent, show beneath

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Common Food Dye Can Make Skin Temporarily Transparent: Report

Researchers at Stanford University were able to peer into the bodies of living animals as they discovered that a common food dye made their skin, muscle and connective tissues temporarily transparent.

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Dye in Doritos used in experiment that, like a 'magic trick,' created see-through mice

Tartrazine, a dye used in making Doritos, has a light-absorbing quality that researchers used to apply to mice so they could see through the skin.

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Common yellow food dye can make the skin of a mouse temporarily transparent, study finds

A commonly used food coloring can make the skin of a living mouse transparent, allowing scientists to see its organs function, according to a new study.

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‘Living window’: Food dye found in Doritos lets scientists see through mice

It may sound like magic, but using basic optics, scientists have taken a major step in the long quest to see what’s under the skin without a scalpel.

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Scientists use food dye found in Doritos to make see-through mice