Doritos are a revered snack for many. Now, scientists have found one of the ingredients in the triangle-shaped tasty tortilla chips has a superpower – it can make the skin of mice transparent.

Scientists have found a way to make see-through mice, allowing them to observe their organs as they go about their daily lives. The procedure is being used to observe the insides of mice without ...

Researchers have developed an ingenious way of making mice transparent, so that you can see their little organs, veins, and all their other fleshy circuitry with the naked eye. The secret? Doritos ...

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Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. When a dye called tartrazine is added to food, it creates a bright ...

Invisible mice do exist from recent research that used a type of dye from the chip Doritos to create a transparency effect that lasted about 10 to 20 minutes. Research on transparent mice can help us ...

NEW YORK — Researchers have found a way to make see-through mice, but you won't find these critters scampering in your kitchen. The transparent rodents aren't alive and they're for research only, to ...