If you could prevent the normal scattering at the interface, you could reveal the structures underneath, effectively rendering skin transparent ... but there are many mice and other common lab test ...

But now, a team of Stanford University scientists has finally found an agent that can reversibly make skin transparent ...

In a new study, researchers made the skin on the skulls and abdomens of live mice transparent by applying to the areas a ...

Courtesy of Maggie Bartlett via Wikimedia Commons  What if you could make your skin transparent and then turn it opaque again? Soon enough, that might be a possibility. And if you’re a lab mouse, ...

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