A mouse in your house is hard enough to catch, but what if that mouse was invisible? This could be a reality sooner than you think if scientists in Japan have their say. Researchers at the RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center at Osaka University found a way to turn mice almost completely invisible.
Scientists first experimented using various mice organs. They used a fluid that makes brains transparent for imaging. Here you see mice kidneys, livers, and pancreata in various states of transparency as the color is removed from them.
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To achieve transparency for a full mouse body, researchers removed the blood from a dead mouse with saline and repeated the same technique used on the individual organs.
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While it might look freaky, researchers are adamant that these clear mice bodies could help with research into preventing and treating diseases that affect humans.
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H/T: Huffington Post
Thankfully for us, this technique only works on dead mice. But who knows? Maybe one day we’ll have to worry about a plague of almost invisible mice terrorizing out homes. That won’t be a fun day.
