My colleagues and I have wondered whether it’s possible to make living tissue transparent temporarily to aid in medical treatments and other uses. We discovered that by dissolving certain dye ...

Researchers have found that common food dye can be used to make skin, muscle and connective tissues temporarily transparent, suggesting that the procedure could be used in future to locate cancer ...

1 and 2, and green dye No. 3. All these additives are derivatives of petroleum. “The FDA is actively working to develop transparent processes for prioritizing chemicals in food for a safety ...

effectively rendering skin transparent. [Zihao Uo] and others demonstrate this in a paper published in Science. The substance they used was the common food dye known as tartrazine, which also goes ...

Medical imaging has come a long way in the past 50 years. No longer is an X-ray the only tool used to see inside the body: now we have CT ...

The FDA has banned Red Dye No. 3 due to health concerns. Learn which popular foods are affected and what this means for ...

“This work highlights the potential of this new generation of organic dyes for future applications in semi-transparent solar cells.” The mini-panel is described in the paper Benzothiadiazole ...