(CNN) — In H.G. Wells’ 1897 science fiction novel, “The Invisible Man,” the protagonist invents a serum that makes the cells in his body transparent by controlling how they bend light. More than 100 ...

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Researchers have found that tartrazine, a common food dye, can temporarily render the skin of living mice transparent. This enables unprecedented visualization of internal structures without invasive ...

Everything inside the mouse – its nerves, tissues and organs – are made invisible by a chemical process A new scanning method involving a see-through mouse could improve how cancer drugs are tested, ...

A research team from the United States revealed in the journal Science that it had achieved a groundbreaking advance in biomedical imaging: By applying a yellow dye known as tartrazine directly to the ...