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Yellow food dye can make living tissue transparent − these methods could one day improve cancer treatment, blood draws and even tattoo removal

  • Written by Guosong Hong, Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Yellow food dye can make living tissue transparent − these methods could one day improve cancer treatment, blood draws and even tattoo removalA dye called FD&C Yellow 5 could have some useful scientific properties. Noppawat Tom Charoensinphon/Moment via Getty Images

Why isn’t your body transparent? Some animals such as jellyfish, zebra fish and some glass frogs have see-through bodies. But most mammals, including humans, aren’t transparent.

While the idea of a transparent...

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