More than 100 years later, scientists have discovered a real-life version of the substance: A commonly used food coloring can make the skin of a mouse temporarily transparent, allowing scientists to ...

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. CNN values your feedback 1.

Researchers made the skin on the skulls and bellies of live mice transparent by applying a mixture of water and a yellow food coloring called tartrazine. Washing away any remaining solution ...

Researchers have found that tartrazine, a common food dye, can temporarily render the skin of living mice transparent. This enables unprecedented visualization of internal structures without ...

To make the skin transparent, scientists used a simple solution of water and tartrazine, a popular food coloring dye. In the experiment, the mixture was applied to the mice’s skulls and abdomens.

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.

When you hear 'making skin transparent,' it may sound like an absurd science fiction or supernatural power. However, a research team at Stanford University has succeeded in developing a technology ...

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.

A new research has revealed that a common food dye, tartrazine (FD&C Yellow No. 5), can temporarily render the skin of living mice transparent, allowing for unprecedented visualization of internal ...

In H.G. Wells’ 1897 science fiction novel, “The Invisible Man,” the protagonist invents a serum that makes the cells in his body transparent by controlling how they bend light. More than 100 ...