Researchers at Stanford University made the skin of mice transparent using the yellow no. 5 food dye, otherwise known as ...

But now, a team of Stanford University scientists has finally found an agent that can reversibly make skin transparent ...

In a new study, scientists used a common yellow food coloring mixed with water to make the skin and skulls on live mice ...

FD&C Yellow 5 is found in many foods, including soda, candy, chips, and pastries – including Doritos, says the product's website. Yet people should not go rubbing dyes on themselves just yet, said ...

Tartrazine, a dye used in making Doritos, has a light-absorbing quality that researchers used to apply to mice so they could ...

Food dye transformed the skin of mice into a living window revealing blood vessels, muscle fibers and gut contractions.

6 issue of the journal Science, how they were able to see through the skin of live mice by applying a mixture of water and tartrazine, a bright yellow-orange food coloring used in Doritos and ...

Stanford University researchers have discovered that tartrazine, a yellow-orange food dye found in Doritos, can make mouse skin transparent. This allows for non-invasive study of tissues and organs.

A new study from Stanford University scientists may point to a delicious new way to see inside the body. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe tells us about the connection between Doritos and medical imaging.

Scientists at Stanford University have developed a new technique that makes the skin on mice skulls and abdomens transparent using a common yellow food dye. Using a common yellow food dye ...