Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 6, 2024

Scientists make tissue of living animals see-through
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/09/240905143615.htm

In a pioneering new study, researchers made the skin on the skulls and abdomens of live mice transparent by applying to the areas a mixture of water and a common yellow food coloring called tartrazine.

Achieving optical transparency in live animals with absorbing molecules
Science, 2024; 385 (6713) DOI: 10.1126/science.adm6869
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adm6869

#biology #imaging #InVivoImaging #tartrazine #BiologicalImaging

Scientists make tissue of living animals see-through

In a pioneering new study, researchers made the skin on the skulls and abdomens of live mice transparent by applying to the areas a mixture of water and a common yellow food coloring called tartrazine.

ScienceDaily
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 6, 2024

Turning tissues temporarily transparent
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr7935

* food dye suppresses light scattering in biol. tissue
* enable vivo imaging
* common food coloring Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine)

Transparent mice made w. light-absorbing dye reveal organs at work
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02887-4

Scientists Make Living Mouse Skin Transparent w. Simple Food Dye
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-make-living-mices-skin-transparent-with-simple-food-dye

Common food dye can make skin transparent
Non-paywalled: https://archive.fo/YgZYq

#biology #imaging #InVivoImaging #tartrazine