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Researchers used a yellow food dye used on tortilla chips—specifically, yellow no. 5 food dye otherwise known as tartrazine— to turn the skin of mice transparent. (Photo: Getty) Let’s be completely ...

Doritos are a revered snack for many. Now, scientists have found one of the ingredients in the triangle-shaped tasty tortilla chips has a superpower – it can make the skin of mice transparent.

One key challenge in medical imaging is to look past skin and other tissue that are opaque to see internal organs and structures. This is the reason we need things like ultrasonography, magnetic ...

This is no puff piece. Researchers have uncovered the fact that a popular food dye used in Cheetos can turn mice’s skin completely transparent — making their organs visible. A coloring agent used in ...

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 years ...

(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 ...