Scientists say they've used a common food dye to render the skin of a mouse transparent, revealing the workings of blood vessels and organs underneath. Image by Keyi "Onyx" Li/U.S. National Science ...

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 ...

During childhood and adolescence, our brain goes through a lot of changes. But studying those changes in juvenile mice is challenging because scientists don't have a way to repeatedly image the same ...

When you hear 'making skin transparent,' it may sound like an absurd science fiction or supernatural power. However, a research team at Stanford University has succeeded in developing a technology ...

A novel reversible, noninvasive technique to observe neuron formation and firing in juvenile mice has been developed. During childhood and adolescence, our brain goes through a lot of changes. But ...

See-through mice may bring to mind an image from a science fiction movie, or maybe a horror movie, but this is no movie magic. Researchers have found a way to make mice transparent. The study was led ...

Last year, scientists did the wacky and cool thing of making a mouse brain transparent. Now they’ve gone and done it to an entire mouse by pumping detergent through its veins. The transparent mouse ...