Behold the entire nervous system of a mouse, revealed in unprecedented detail by turning the animal’s body completely transparent. This technique could help us better understand the workings of mammal ...

Last year, scientists did the wacky and cool thing of making a mouse brain transparent. Now they’ve gone and done it to an entire mouse by pumping detergent through its veins. The transparent mouse ...

In H.G. Wells’ 1897 science fiction novel, “The Invisible Man,” the protagonist invents a serum that makes the cells in his body transparent by controlling how they bend light. More than 100 years ...

Neuroscientists have developed a way to turn an entire mouse, including its muscles and internal organs, transparent while illuminating the nerve paths that run throughout its body. The process, ...

Researchers from Japan's RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center and the University of Tokyo have developed a means of taking highly detailed images of interior organs by combining light-sheet fluorescent ...

Transparent bodies of animals are seldom seen in the wild. There are glassfrogs and ghost shrimps in the list. However, there's a way to make a non-transparent body become "see-through" using a common ...

In H.G. Wells’ 1897 science fiction novel, “The Invisible Man,” the protagonist invents a serum that makes the cells in his body transparent by controlling how they bend light. More than 100 years ...

The technique that shrinks the body and makes the tissue transparent could allow us to inspect human organs post mortem in greater detail than ever before Lesions caused by traumatic brain damage, ...