Agouti changes the mouse's coloring by stopping the color-creating cells, called melanocytes, from maturing. Immature melanocytes don't make it into the hair follicles and can't make the pigments ...

A commonly used food coloring found in snack foods and candies such as tortilla chips and candy corn can make the skin of a mouse temporarily transparent, allowing scientists to see its organs ...

Before you start slathering yourself in Doritos – the coloring is used in several Doritos ... That's because human skin is about 10 times thicker than a mouse and it's not sure how much of ...

A coloring agent used in Cheetos can turn skin translucent in larger doses, scientists have learned. Bloomberg via Getty Images Tartrazine, the yellowing agent for the “dangerously cheesy ...