Diaphonization (Zoology 🦥)

Diaphonization, also known as clearing and staining, is a staining technique used on animal specimens that first renders the body of the animal transparent by bathing it in trypsin, and then stains the bones and cartilage with various dyes, usually alizarin red and alcian blue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaphonization

#Diaphonization #Zoology #Staining #StainingDyes #SkeletalSystem #LaboratoryTechniques

From the "Today I learned a new thing" department :

Dyeing the Dead: The Artful Science of #Diaphonization - Atlas Obscura

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dyeing-the-dead-the-artful-science-of-diaphonization

Also spelled #diaphanization because the term comes from diaphanous.