Stanford University materials scientist Zihao Ou and colleagues developed a biologically-safe dye that makes tissues transparent by ... who supported the work. Human skin, however, is about ...

If you could prevent the normal scattering at the interface, you could reveal the structures underneath, effectively rendering skin transparent ... Naturally, human skin will be trickier than ...

A common dye found in snack foods can turn skin ... human medicine, we currently have ultrasound to look deeper inside the ...

It is an important discovery as animal models are not very representative of human skin development, holding back advances. In particular, the scientists believe that the atlas could be important ...