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Posted: Oct 3, 2024 - 2:48pm

Cheetos Food Coloring Turns Mice Transparent
It’s a vanishing act that Harry Houdini would envy.A popular food dye in Cheetos can turn the skin of live mice transparent to reveal the animal’s organs inside.When scientists massaged a solution of the dye tartrazine onto the bellies of live mice, their skin appeared to vanish, revealing the inner organs and pulsing muscles in the gut. After soaking the mice’s heads in the solution, they saw blood vessels that sluice the brain. Applied to the hind limbs, the dye showed muscles in the legs.Biological cells are held together by oily membrane made of fats, embedded in a watery matrix. Fat and water transmit light differently, so light scatters as it hits the cells. This is why skin is opaque. But the addition of this food dye evens out the difference between the fat and water, allowing light to pass through, rendering the skin layers transparent, the researchers said.“It was one of those moments where you go, that is both really clever and really simple,” said Christopher Rowlands, a biophotonics researcher at Imperial College London, who reviewed the study and wrote a commentary about the findings for Science.Tartrazine, certified by the Food and Drug Administration as FD&C Yellow No. 5, is used at much lower concentrations in snacks and sodas.“I wouldn’t worry about making my belly or my gut transparent by eating a bag of Doritos,” said Stanford University materials scientist Guosong Hong, who was part of the team that described the phenomenon in the journal Science in September.Researchers at Kyushu University in Japan questioned the study in a preprint posted Sunday on a scientific forum. After being contacted by The Wall Street Journal, they said they were revisiting their critique. The preprint was withdrawn Wednesday.If the dye works on human tissue, this phenomenon could one day be a useful medical tool, from a variety of imaging uses to displaying subcutaneous veins for easy blood draws, Hong said.The researchers didn’t have institutional permissions to test the dye in people.Human skin is 10 times thicker than the skin of mice, according to Hong, so they don’t expect the same solution they used on the mice to have as powerful a disappearing effect on people.For their next trick, the team is planning ways to test its discovery on human tissue in the lab.

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 Proclivities wrote:
1956 Ad.  I never heard of this "Copper Man" project and can't find anything about it, but the illustration is fantastic.  (Click image for details)

 

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Posted: Sep 25, 2019 - 10:05am

1956 Ad.  I never heard of this "Copper Man" project and can't find anything about it, but the illustration is fantastic.  (Click image for details)

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Posted: May 2, 2019 - 2:22pm

A Neural Net Hooked Up to a Monkey Brain Spat Out Bizarre Images




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Posted: Jan 9, 2019 - 9:18am

Japanese Person Develops USB That Uses A Small Fish Design As Storage!
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"...and don’t worry PETA, the fish used in these USB drives are silver-striped round herrings that came from the local neighborhood supermarket, and were already destined to become future meals for people."
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Posted: Sep 11, 2013 - 2:21pm

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This happens regularly in the forums here. I start out debating about something with Lazy8 and end up continuing with Miamizsun.

The weird thing is, I never remember the door.


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Posted: Aug 4, 2011 - 4:55pm

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... Who needs a fancy degree and all that book-learnin? What's the worst that could happen?")

 

That's my motto!
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Posted: Aug 4, 2011 - 1:57pm

 winter wrote:

It's quite a story. (Not the Herbie movie. You've seen one movie about a sentient VW, you've seen them all.)

 
True dat.

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Posted: Aug 4, 2011 - 1:44pm

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Holy carp. Never heard of that incident. Not familiar with that particular 'Herbie' movie either.
 
It's quite a story. (Not the Herbie movie. You've seen one movie about a sentient VW, you've seen them all.)
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Posted: Aug 4, 2011 - 1:39pm

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Yeah, that turned into a fine mess - and the doctors who abandoned the place knew better.
 
Holy carp. Never heard of that incident. Not familiar with that particular 'Herbie' movie either.

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Posted: Aug 4, 2011 - 1:38pm

 oldslabsides wrote:


Yeah, that turned into a fine mess - and the doctors who abandoned the place knew better.
 
Indeed they did.

 
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Posted: Aug 4, 2011 - 1:34pm

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Yeah, that turned into a fine mess - and the doctors who abandoned the place knew better.
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Posted: Aug 4, 2011 - 1:32pm

 oldslabsides wrote:

yeah, he should have been working in his basement.
 
Or a mental institution. (Or an abandoned hospital where the guard stepped out to watch Herbie Goes Bananas.)

Symptom of our times: people who think "I can do that. Who needs a fancy degree and all that book-learnin? What's the worst that could happen?")
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Posted: Aug 4, 2011 - 1:03pm

 winter wrote:

Irresponsible idiot.

 
yeah, he should have been working in his basement.

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