The team’s research, published today in Science, makes use of a concept once relegated to science fiction: making soft tissues like skin transparent ... surgery or damage. They watched the ...

But now, a team of Stanford University scientists has finally found an agent that can reversibly make skin transparent without damaging it. This agent was tartrazine, a popular yellow-orange food ...

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 ...

If you could prevent the normal scattering at the interface, you could reveal the structures underneath, effectively rendering skin transparent. [Zihao Uo] and others demonstrate this in a paper ...

Now, scientists have found one of the ingredients in the triangle-shaped tasty tortilla chips has a superpower – it can make the skin of mice transparent. Researchers at Stanford University ...

certain therapies use lasers to eliminate cancerous and precancerous cells but are limited to areas near the skin’s surface. This technique may be able to improve that light penetration,″ said Hong.