Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬#Mice made transparent with a #dye used in #Doritos
Stanford scientists has found an agent that can reversibly make skin transparent without damaging it. #Tartrazine, a popular yellow-orange food dye called FD&C Yellow 5 is notably used for coloring Doritos. Hong’s team dissolved the dye in an aqueous solution and created a transparency-inducing lotion of sorts. It worked, because the dye reduced the difference in refractive index between water and lipids in the skin.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/mice-made-transparent-with-a-dye-used-in-doritos/
Stanford scientists has found an agent that can reversibly make skin transparent without damaging it. #Tartrazine, a popular yellow-orange food dye called FD&C Yellow 5 is notably used for coloring Doritos. Hong’s team dissolved the dye in an aqueous solution and created a transparency-inducing lotion of sorts. It worked, because the dye reduced the difference in refractive index between water and lipids in the skin.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/mice-made-transparent-with-a-dye-used-in-doritos/
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