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Common Food Dye Makes Skin, Muscle Reversibly Transparent in Live Animals


Researchers at Stanford University have found that an aqueous solution of a common food color approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, tartrazine, has the effect of reversibly making the skin, muscle, and connective tissues transparent in live rodents.

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