We use ordinary transparent restraining tubes that we either cover with a paper towel, or we use opaque tubes made of red Perspex so that they becomes a dark, `safe' hiding place. With a bit of ...

This is no puff piece. Researchers have uncovered the fact that a popular food dye used in Cheetos can turn mice’s skin ...

In an article published in Science, Ou and his collegues report that they made the skin on the skulls and abdomens of live mice transparent by applying to the areas a mixture of water and tartrazine.

Scientists from Stanford University in California applied yellow-orange food dye to the skin of mice which turned the live animals' bodies temporarily transparent and allowed the researchers to ...