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Biophysics and bioengineering

Biophysics and bioengineering

Light-absorbing dye turns skin of a live mouse transparent

24 Sep 2024 Isabelle Dumé
Zihao Ou holds a vial of the common yellow food dye tartrazine in solution
Achieving optical transparency First author Zihao Ou holds a vial of the common yellow food dye tartrazine in solution. By applying a mixture of water and tartrazine, Ou and colleagues made the skin on the skulls and abdomens of live mice transparent. (Courtesy: University of Texas at Dallas)
One of the difficulties when trying to image biological tissue using optical techniques is that tiss

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