Incredible Discovery Makes Skin Invisible By Using Yellow Dye

[@AezothPlays]

This would give the phrase "Let me be clear" a whole new meaning.

[@Foogi9000]

*"I think i made myself clear..."* 💀

[@darksidegryphon5393]

"Let me clear things up."

[@jimmyellis745]

Stop it! Are we clear?

[@hrishikeshaggrawal]

*dissappears*

[@RaymondSwanson-u9y]

Watch out for yellow jackets.

[@oiytd5wugho]

Imagine cancelling your plans to go to the beach in the future because you had non-invasive imaging done and now your skin is embarrassingly transparent for the day

[@prophetzarquon1922]

Imagine _not_ cancelling...

[@windws7137]

Hate when that happens 😡😡😡

[@Ladamshify]

New potential sunburn areas unlocked.

[@lolgamez9171]

​@@Ladamshify WTFF horror

[@JacobPrater]

​@@LadamshifyOh my God

[@sethpeterson8261]

Halloween will never be the same again

[@l4zrh4wk]

Oh sweet Jesus 😂

[@jamesleatherwood5125]

Yesh!

[@robo5013]

Soak in a tub of it then go out as the Visible Man.

[@charlesdarienzo6686]

I came here to say this.

[@WarkWarbly]

Imagine showing up to work before this is really popular. Walk up to the boss and watch them jump out of their skin.

[@KiithnarasAshaa]

"No X-rays, no MRIs, no expensive equipment." I see, so this will never be available in the US, or if it is, it will be expressly banned by the FDA and never see general usage for 30-plus years.

[@vaakdemandante8772]

Yellow 5 is already discouraged in Europe. FDA did not want to issue any warnings in regard to Yellow 5, but I bet they will as soon as this news reaches medical lobby that owns FDA.

[@edgedg]

They'll make a modification of the molecule that is slightly better, enforce it as standard by law, and keep it expensive due to patent laws.

[@rorykeegan1895]

All those terrible "communists" with their awful "socialist" ideas, running out of control bloated Governments manned by unaccountable elites only in it for themselves in the EU will have it for free though. Everyone will benefit in the EU while in the USA some benevolent American billionaires will charge their people an arm and a leg for it.. There are downsides to being market driven idealogues without a sense of social responsibility or any empathy, don't you agree?.

[@noob19087]

Just bring your own vial and apply it yourself at the doctor's office.

[@mo-s-]

300$/ml food dye when?

[@BrianM_3rd]

Imagine the insane body mods that could come out of this. Tattoos? Nah, check out my damn pancreas.

[@QwoaX]

It's gonna be great for Halloween.

[@jackvos8047]

Given how tattoos actually work it might be possible to have that pancreas on show 24/7.

[@LucidiaRising]

in principle, you could do a full-body tattoo - every square inch of skin - that would turn you into a deliciously see-through monstrosity LOL

[@danlock134]

This could revolutionize bodybuilding. Now the muscle fibers can be shown directly. 😂

[@Meenaia]

Thats a nice pancreas!

[@solandri69]

According to another article I read (haven't read the paper), they used the dye to change the refractive index of water to match that of fat. Apparently (most of) the scattering in skin is due to light scattering as it bounces off of interfaces between water and fat. But if you make the refractive index of both of those match, suddenly the interfaces disappear (optically) and you can see through it. It's like how the bumps in frosted bathroom privacy glass scatter light, making it translucent but not transparent. But if you smooth out the bumps, it becomes transparent. It's one of those ideas brilliant which you'd never think of, but once you hear about it it's obvious. All this time, everyone who ate Doritos and had a bunch of the powder left on their fingers were just one step away from discovering this.

[@Belikewater1]

So your saying you can actually use this to become invisible?

[@archaeologistify]

@@Belikewater1 only the skin and I presume it will still be milky translucent with veins and other darker organs being more easily visible.

[@Iamthelolrus]

Does this mean the nurse at my doctor won't have to stick me half a dozen times to find a vein?

[@Atok595]

Depends on what they are sticking you with.

[@DontDoubtOurServers]

@@Atok595 a very cold finger or two i imagine if he’s taking it a dozen times 😂 everyone has there kink I guess lol

[@guineapig1016]

They already didn't need to. There's a device that shines a UV light to locate your veins. They just don't use it. (Probably because of price)

[@God-yi9bd]

😂😂

[@megawaffle612]

@@guineapig1016I’m sure they also enjoy poking some people repeatedly.

[@WeWatchShortShorts]

Kid tries to stay home from school pretending to be sick... parents paints the kid yellow... says "Nothing to See Here"

[@alphamoonman]

🤢

[@yunaaeris7523]

They can see right through the kid’s lies.

[@CSmith41591]

This feels so much like an episode of the Simpsons. *Aliens make skin invisible* People: How'd you do that?! Aliens: We used what your people call....food dye....

[@panta_rhei.26]

Then Homer tries it but the dye does nothing because he's already yellow

[@_ch1pset]

it was an episode of the Venture Bros

[@9bitsovertake]

@@panta_rhei.26omg we are living in a fucking cartoon

[@squtnik]

​@@panta_rhei.26nice pfp

[@graciegj63]

​@@9bitsovertakeThe plans are shown to us through cartoons so that when we tell anyone, no one believes us.

[@WhiteWeaseI]

Clear skin sounds like a good way to get sunburns on your insides and that sounds like a really _bad_ time.

[@AzurePrower]

First thing I thought of. Instead of skin cancer from the sun, organ cancer is a lot more fatal.

[@bruh_man2]

deep frying

[@insertname9736]

Who would use this outside? And I'd imagine only the medical fields will have access to this stuff. Not the normies.

[@abduking.]

@@insertname9736 are you dumb this is a common food dye and the method is BLATENTLY on the paper

[@hyperturbotechnomike]

Sunburn in the pancreas and bones

[@wildfallz]

You already know someone’s gonna try to rob a bank naked with this

[@independentfreethinkeroutl2176]

LoL thought of that to

[@shripperquats5872]

knew a guy who squirted lemon juice directly into his own eyes after interpreting the myth incorrectly. When people went to investigate where he was screaming from he was ass naked on all fours in the mud pulling on a horses leg. He was pulling your leg. i'm pulling your leg

[@Maggbba]

Why? It's only possible to hide the skin, not what is inside the body. This is far from total invisibility.

[@zetsumeinaito]

@@Maggbba If it works right, you'll get an orange translucent skin, showing muscle and veins. Way harder to identify someone that way. The creepiness will throw off people's memory. I doubt it'll work on infrared cameras tho.

[@Maggbba]

@@zetsumeinaito That's no different than wearing a halloween costume and you would be leaving DNA all over the place. The only way this plan works is in a comedy show.

[@Tiniuc]

Invisible Man: *Rips off hat and trenchcoat* "Ha! I'm the Invisible Man!" *Only his skin is invisible* *Everyone around him screams* *Invisible Man looks down* *Only his skin is invisible* *Invisible Man screams*

[@Hedron-Design]

I remember as a child in Miami. I once saw a lizard (not a true chameleon) climb onto our screen door after a fly. While on the screen its body became very transparent and I could see the blobs of organs inside etc. It was not perfectly transparent but I could see through the translucent skin into the body. I knew they could color match but I never knew they could be come semi transparent like a screen is. I was mind blown as an8-9 year old child by this.

[@PatchouliPenny]

That was alien, my dude! 😅

[@vaakdemandante8772]

what is color-matching if not adjusting refractive index/diffraction strength i.e. transparency of certain colors? When on glass the creature just went all-in on its powers and adjusted its skin diffraction pattern to not diffract light as much as possible - effectively becoming transparent.

[@GlutenEruption]

@@vaakdemandante8772 it has nothing to do with refraction. They tense or relax different combinations of tiny muscles surrounding different color pigment patches in their skin

[@borstenpinsel]

​@@GlutenEruptionwhich means OP had a dream 😅

[@GlutenEruption]

@@borstenpinsel lmao, or a hallucination 😂

[@lyoced]

how could it "reveal blood vessels inside the brain" (5:18) when you put it on the scalp, when there's a skull?

[@oldmonkey6753]

I assume a bright light shines through the transparent skin and the skull of a mouse mind you is thin enough to allow the deep contrasting colors of the blood vessels to be seen through I would not expect these outcomes on human skin prolly just gonna see red if we ever used it

[@nascentcomplacence3302]

All depends on the light or scope

[@mochilatte9792]

yeah i was gonna say it really does just depend on the thing its used on, for us this would probably not be useful on our skull as our bones arent see through, but to see our bones without xray it may be.

[@jackvos8047]

So none of the scientists have "accidentally" forgot to put on gloves while applying this stuff yet?

[@DraigBlackCat]

If it was me then I would have been trying it as soon as they found it worked on chicken skin

[@Broken_robot1986]

They absolutely have

[@Mr.Benson]

Yes by one researcher by the name of Kevin Bacon but he hasn't been seen since the accident..

[@theawecat27]

i guess no official study has been done yet

[@Tdorf53185]

As long as they say “oops” there are no ethical issues.

[@noob19087]

Oh, so it's like oil on a piece of paper. You know when you hold a donut on a piece of paper and the paper becomes transparent? I feel really silly now, for never being amazed by it and wondering how that was possible.

[@JinKee]

Histologists used to treat tissue with Xylene to make flesh transparent, except unlike Yellow 7 the xylene is really toxic.

[@windws7137]

Can you elaborate, how a donut makes a paper transparent

[@troliskimosko]

@@windws7137Oily

[@yasininn76]

Yeah I still have no idea how both of these work

[@lolgamez9171]

​@@windws7137 donuts are fried. Oil on paper

[@projectarduino2295]

Can’t wait to see the pranks when people put yellow 5 on another person’s eyelids so they can’t sleep.

[@pilotnamealreadytaken6035]

😂

[@nielsniels5008]

Hahahaha

[@LostOter]

yooo that means we never have to blink again

[@dankline9162]

Nice way off seeing this research through to the other side!

[@mtdfs5147]

​​@@LostOteror rather we blink 24/7, imagine having a staring contest, with your eyes closed!

[@noob19087]

Rubbing this on your skin for halloween sounds like one of those chemical horror stories you read about from the 50s. "Radium is totally safe, you can even eat it!"

[@biglollol]

I don't think anyone ever said you could eat it. The Radium girls did put it in their mouth, but only to resharpen their brushes.

[@Walter-wo5sz]

"Beauty is only skin deep" Not anymore!

[@edgedg]

"Oh, baby, I love to watch the gasses move in your intestines!"

[@Stormcrow_1]

Ugly goes right down to the bone.

[@Shade-Slayer]

​@@edgedg 😂

[@tactileslut]

@edgedg 🎵 Dare ya, baby, light my fire.

[@Noizzed]

New social media trend to make celebrities take a photo of the inside of their face to prove you're natural.

[@Tybold63]

You have the most incredible and interesting subject in science and it is in a rather low-key presentation which I like. No clickbait nonsense and I find it you are just letting the fact or studies speak for themselves with insightful complimentary comments.

[@Bo-kq8tn]

I was impressed by this and initially thought they were flushing something through the veins of dead mice to get this effect, and then you said they were /live/ and it was a topical creme with an already common food safe ingredient and my jaw FELL open. Oh my GOD. Really looking forward to the studies branching off this one, thank you for covering it!

[@jacquesjtheripper5922]

Not many substances added to our food is really safe..

[@KenLieck]

When your retina detaches, in order to see that part of the eye for laser surgery they must inject you with a radioactive dye that turns your skin bright orange for 24 hours or so. Maybe that's what you were thinking of.

[@Kotifilosofi]

This could be a huge positive change to animal testing! They might even be able to adopt some out as pets, completely unharmed, after the testing is done 🥹🙏

[@skateruwu]

0:20 Invisible Man is different from The Invisible Man. One is by Ralph Ellison, the other H.G. Wells. Both are super famous

[@TyreFwatt]

Oh . Never heard of them . Books are useless , we have tic Tok , dancing medical frauds , and illegal government conspiracy occurring world wide and censorship is all about public safety just like illegal gun control !!! Ha ! Who needs books !! Hopefully you're detecting tons of obvious sarcasm by this point . If not , well .. I'm used to failure

[@wildfallz]

I’m gonna rub yellow 5 on my thing for science

[@terrymckenzie8786]

It will dissapear😂

[@Jossandoval]

¿Need a microscope for the attempt?

[@ampadedoda5027]

Thats gonna end up being a funny paramedics story.

[@InsertHandleHere968]

The one and only thing pic I’d actually like to see 😂

[@mac11380]

Why bother?, I understand you can't see it before the dye either....lol

[@WutziGunudoo]

4:00 That hair on the yellow gummy to the right of Anton is stirring up so much anxiety. I saw it now you all have to as well. Great video as always

[@thomasdemaio53]

Omg, I wish that wasn't true

[@lyfandeth]

So it is a safe common food color, that no one has ever spilled on their hands before? Someone needs to give the dye handlers an OSHA safety award.

[@hugegamer5988]

It’s in millions of people’s pantries used for coloring food.

[@inou2222]

No they had to tweak it so it would work.

[@cinderwolf32]

Red 40, Yellow 5, and Yellow 6 all seem to have inconclusive research as to whether or not they're safe or not. Just because something is abundant and FDA approved in the US doesn't mean it's safe

[@512TheWolf512]

@inou2222 damn tweakers

[@commentvsreply2420]

​@@512TheWolf512 lmao

[@rocketsurgeon2135]

Um, yellow 5 is banned in some countries, and in the EU, if you use it in food or drinks, you have to put a warning label on the product. So I'd dispute the claim it's "biologically safe".

[@profpuffofficial2]

just about to say. yellow die and red 40 makes my autism schitz out

[@0612rex]

Pretty sure it was because it was turning kids orange 😆

[@hypnoamber3248]

This could be a game changer for research thats done on small organisms even if it never gets applied medically. I used to be a neuroscientist and being able to observe the brain during experiments in a more efficient way would have been amazing. I hope they continue to explore this.

[@noob19087]

Getting to the point where BONE is invisible will be a couple more papers down the line. Actually make that a few.

[@Amira_Phoenix]

Not much, cause some individuals are allergic to tartrazine, like me

[@narutobankai]

@@noob19087 For animal experiments they could remove part of the skull, instead of leaving it fully exposed they could use this to monitor

[@Providence83]

​@@Amira_Phoenix some individuals are also allergic to penicillin. It does not stop its use on non-affected people. What are you on about?

[@sadge0]

@@Amira_Phoenix womp womp

[@Brohoe]

It’s nice how transparent they are with this information.

[@prozacgod]

wait, so there is now potentially a way to keep the nurses from blowing out or missing my veins... ffs finally they can see right through my skin and bam! perfect, everytime.

[@edgedg]

But a nightmare for those who are fainting from looking at just blood.

[@Danuxsy]

I've never had that happen, I'm quite thin and my veins are very visible on my arms, no way you'd miss lol

[@vladdracul2379]

Now when they blow out your veins, you'll know they're doing it because they can.

[@sadge0]

@@edgedg just don't look

[@limetime9045]

Trust me, they'll still find a way to miss. My veins are really visible and I still have nurses miss from time to time.

[@erictaylor5462]

There is an issue that very few people consider when they think of being invisible. The ability to see depends on light interacting with your eyes, invisibility depends on your body not interacting with light. This creates a catch 22, meaning that to become invisible, you must also become blind, and this negates any advantage being invisible might give you. There is a very easy way to make yourself invisible. Just turn off the lights.

[@leejerrett8268]

That was partially addressed in the HG Wells novel; an invisible cat’s retinas were visible, however this would still make the invisible man blind by any metric.

[@Hyreia]

@@leejerrett8268 His pupils could be seen. But since they're just black dots, it's not that difficult to become hidden.

[@leejerrett8268]

@@Hyreia That wouldn’t make much sense, because the explanation for the invisibility serum was that it made living tissue transparent and have a refractive index that matches air; it wouldn’t be possible to make the pupil visible without making the rest of the interior of the eye visible from all angles. If the invisibility worked by ‘bending’ light around him or by using some kind of active camouflage that covers up his visible body you could leave gaps for his pupils though.

[@humanbean3]

yep, basically just wear all black and go out at night when there's no moon and you're invisible! I do it all the time! btw, anyone have some nice items and leave the house for days at a time?

[@zachwilson768]

Oh no, this is going to open up a Pandora’s box of fetishes and very scary Halloween modifications. I would genuinely like to see my hand, muscles and bones without cutting into my skin though. Imagine applying it to your cheeks then holding a tiny LED on your tongue.

[@Luizfernando-dm2rf]

Well get to toys eventually, I believe

[@PatchouliPenny]

I've done the last part.

[@springbloom5940]

Acid parties are gonna get crazy

[@Emeric62]

It's a revolution for fetish porn. Imagine applying it to your cheeks then holding not a led on your tongue.

[@Renzsu]

Yeah, would be a cool way for me to see the titanium bits they used to fix my broken arm.

[@TheItalianoAssassino]

Hospitals who just bought a new MRI machine: "Fuck."

[@derrickmiles5240]

At this point, I'm waiting for someone to invent cold fusion by accident, while assebling a sack lunch.

[@Aim54Delta]

Depending on who you talk to, a few people have disappeared after doing, effectively, that.

[@AnonymousAnarchist2]

​@@Aim54DeltaNaw. If someone did "disappear" after finding a viable cold fusion pathway, there would be cold fusion generators for sale a month later. That's just not the kind of tech anyone would best profit from by hiding it, even a goverment. Although go into hiding thats a solid maybe. I imagine youd want to have a good channel of publicity before publishing such a finding, least someone else tries to take credit... forcably.

[@juimymary9951]

Screw cold fusion we need FTL

[@Foogi9000]

​@@juimymary9951 FTL isn't possible. You would need to rewrite the way the universe works in order for such a thing to exist. Wormholes are honestly more realistic but even they have their own problems. There's no easy shortcut to exploring space, we'll have to fix ourselves as a species and extend our lifespans as much as possible. We will need to figure out how to create massive space habitats to live, love, and die in. It's the only way...

[@Aim54Delta]

@@AnonymousAnarchist2 You're not exactly wrong, but I will point out my experience on the subject. We track neutron emissions from satellites in space. Someone incidentally creating cold fusion will be discovered and investigated by a small number of people tasked with proliferation of nuclear material. The specific challenge with cold fusion - or even some form of viable fusion, is its potential for breeder reactions. IE "the radioactive boy scout" - but you only need water or something as an input. There is actually a nuclear proliferation concern from coal because of the concentration of uranium in fly ash. A mass publication of cold fusion would create an enormous and instantaneous logistical burden for the disposition of irradiated and/or transmuted materials. There are some valid reasons to make sure such things are shut down and made quiet. I am not saying I completely agree with it, but there are people who will show up on an aircraft carrier and seize flight deck footage. They exist, they take their job seriously, the conspiracy theories both exaggerate them and completely underestimate who and/or what they are a part of. I will put it this way ... 20 nanometer line widths are easy to achieve with an electron microscope modified for electron beam lithography. That is, roughly, equivalent to today's 5nm process from TSMC (because size is a marketing term). So, since mosfet technology has been a thing, it is within the means of any university laboratory to manufacture a modern CPU - probably something closer to ARM or RISC-V, and obviously an ISA is an iterative process to design as is a code base. But since the 1960s, that's been possible if you can afford to pay people to nerd out with it or make a limited run of parts. Now, take those people, plus trade masters from various corners of the economy, put them in a facility with access to any university team, any white paper, and any material resource known to exist... And tell them to have fun, maybe even give them a specific mission and creed and let them operate outside of normal chains of command or usual government record. What does that look like after 60 years? Just a theory I have about who they are and how they came to be.

[@DG-iw3yw]

FINALLY I CAN FIND THAT SHAMPOO BOTTLE THANKS ANTON YOU LIFE SAVER

[@Death_Rave]

HOLUP

[@DonnaPinciot]

Wait a second, put it on your eyelids and see through them without worrying about soap on the eyes!

[@kanojo1969]

There will be one halloween where everyone goes as the 'visible man' after slathering this stuff all over their body. But by next halloween it will be old news.

[@PatchouliPenny]

Old and yellow.

[@Cheesepuff8]

Bro invisible skin was so 2026

[@HazySkies]

This is a phenomenal discovery! Imagine how this will affect screening for things like skin (or other similar) cancers, inspecting organ damage and/or internal bleeding severity from trauma, learning more about surface level body parts to further medical sciences in a safe and non-invasive manner, improving surgical and injection precision, checking for anything from blood clots to parasites. This process quite literally sheds light on all of these and more. I look forward to seeing just how much this improves the medical field.

[@MsCrazylegs80]

I’m just visualising seeing walking intestines and blood vessels instead of skin,I’m wondering if we would behave differently towards each other if that’s all we saw!?,would there still be instant attraction or would we base our perception on how healthy our organs look!?.😁

[@MorbinNecrim86]

Good point

[@sabsajosubjeckt]

Have gore enjoyers won the lottery?

[@mtdfs5147]

They... They might have... I'd consider getting see through arms, just to see my veins... ​@@sabsajosubjeckt

[@pilotnamealreadytaken6035]

​@@sabsajosubjeckt🤪🫡

[@Chris-wz5yd]

I think I would try it, just to see if I had the guts.

[@Projacked1]

@ 2:36...something happens, on the left.

[@The.BansheeRose]

Whew, glad someone else noticed this too. Been scrolling and scrolling to find it mentioned. I noticed it and was wondering what Anton was looking at. At least that mystery black shadow on his right shoulder is gone. Man that was distracting lol.

[@Projacked1]

@@The.BansheeRose 😅 It felt a bit, ....strange lol

[@aaronha994]

Wow, thats awesome, however ive been invisible to women my whole life without any scientific experiments.

[@Inuweeb]

Not even dyed... Just dead on the inside. 😢

[@AceSpadeThePikachu]

Reminds me of an old PSA about prostate cancer testing a while back, where there was a couple who had transparent skin and organs and thus could just look down at themselves in a mirror to see if there was anything wrong, than the obligatory "Unlike this fictional family, you're not transparent. Get tested." Boy are we gonna be looking back at that and giggling in a few years.

[@user-xg8ut5kh9j]

Saw the story on my news yesterday that Doritos dye, yellow number 5 turns mice turns mice translucent. Thanks for covering this topic🙏🙏🙏

[@RWBHere]

** I foresee a price hike for the dye.

[@seantiz]

I’m starting a strict diet of only yellow food.

[@quiet_one8061]

I have the yellowest bananas in the land I will sell them to you for £1000 each!

[@redcharget5894]

i'll be eating more nachos so my gut bacteria can have windows

[@Loan--Wolf]

Tartrazine, also known as Yellow 5, has been associated with behavioral changes including irritability, restlessness, depression and difficulty with sleeping ( 10 ). What's more, a 2004 analysis of 15 studies concluded that artificial food dyes do increase hyperactivity in children ( 11 ).

[@nunyabitnezz2802]

They aren’t suggesting you wear it all the time.

[@32brookse]

@@nunyabitnezz2802 That's not the point. The point is that Anton is giving out bad information when he claims that Yellow #5 is "very safe". It isn't.

[@mtdfs5147]

I mean.. neither is sugar, or the micro plastics in our food. And most people eat too much salt. ​Everything in moderation. @@32brookse

[@thulyblu5486]

Well that's when ingesting it, who knows what it does when you just rub it on your skin and wash it off again - you'll probably absorb a smaller dose

[@charlesdufour9276]

There are also some people who are sensitive to Tartrazine (such as myself). I find that if I eat anything with Tartrazine, I end up with a mild headache.

[@youbewb5581]

*starts ordering yellow 5 from amazon*

[@rainerlanglotz3134]

Tartrazine is still allowed in many countries but actually it shouldn´t because azo dyes are often cancerogenic. To achieve the transparancy effect high concentrations like 0.6 molar are needed as the video shows. Tartrazine is also proven to have a negative effect on our psyche. (Taking this new resarch into account it may affect cell-communication via bio photons). Someone should developp a save alternative to tartrazine for the transparancy effect. (which then could be a patent ... )

[@gljames24]

Carcinogenic is a poor diagnostic tool and really should be phased out. How many microMorts does it elevate over the background risk of common foods?

[@Shade-Slayer]

Yeah patent it and then money monger their way into capitalism bourgeoisie

[@rainerlanglotz3134]

@@Shade-Slayer Let´s be realistic. If they cannot patent it there is no motivation.

[@Shade-Slayer]

@@rainerlanglotz3134 it has multiple aspects of application and is simple enough that academic institutions can develop this for a new field of medical application ... What's not practical here lol , nothing to be even patented here it'll just be a technique like getting Xray or CT scan done

[@gabrxHP]

But according to the proposed usage, you have to paint it on one arm for example, for just enough time to have some diagnostical insights, and then washing it away...I see no harm

[@ShawnF6FHellcat]

As someone with chronic issues that haven't been able to be determined with imagery, I'd volunteer for this in a heartbeat!

[@FallingPicturesProductions]

Everyone else: HG Wells! Hollow Man! People will rob banks and go insane! Me and my friends: Time for some Popeye/Tom and Jerry shenanigan's!

[@ToTheGAMES]

What friends?

[@exosproudmamabear558]

This is a thing that have a great potential. For thick skin you can add things that can increase absorbtion like chitosan,edta,nanogold maybe make it liposomal solutions or subdermal injections could work. It needs a lot more research thats for sure.

[@vadim1831]

My guess is if this was to become an actual medical technology, it would be some sort of spray you spray on the body.

[@zachstanton8945]

Cheap readily available food dye? That'll be $12,000

[@nothere7198]

Nah, pharma will insist on making it a pill. Why put the product exactly where you want it at a low concentration and cost with instant results when you can increase the concentration several times over, complicate the manufacture, make someone swallow/insert it, wait for it to be absorbed, then travel all the way through the circulatory system, affecting lots of systems you're not interested in along the way, to finally get where you wanted it and with a reduced effect. Bonus ! Side effects ! Yay ! ...ok, I'm feeling just a tad cynical at the moment, lol.

[@juliana.x0x0]

@@nothere7198I don't think you're being cynical, necessarily...you're being realistic, based on how the FDA and any other corporations have shown how they operate in the past. Your hypothetical scenario is incredibly realistic and seems almost inevitable.

[@profpuffofficial2]

reminds me of how topical opioids are being just as effective as oral

[@heideknight9122]

Just imagine getting a sunburn on your internal organs. I always thought the Invisible Man had a neat concept.

[@martineldritch]

Could our internal organs get sunburn now or is the UV light still blocked by the skin ?

[@rikk319]

Under your skin is...your muscles, before your internal organs, so no.

[@martineldritch]

@@rikk319 Oh of course, thank you. So could our muscles get UV damage ?

[@rikk319]

@@martineldritch If you were out in the sun long enough, I'd think so. But who would do that?

[@edgedg]

@@rikk319 Don't underestimate the insanity of man.

[@kosh9019]

Nah melanin blocks UVa

[@solvated_photon]

If anyone wants to know what is usually used to make tissues transparent (vitrification), it is oil of wintergreen or methyl salicylate.

[@mdb1239]

Incredibly interesting. Thanks Anton.

[@rogwarrior1018]

A nerd, someone who remembers Tom and Jerry and a dorito lover too. You're awesome, Anton

[@ninehundreddollarluxuryyac5958]

It doesn't work on people. Can you imagine doing this research and not rubbing it on yourself to try it out? If it worked on people they'd be bragging about it.

[@doomboydrifter6665]

I love your armchair research! 😂

[@doodlegarbage6769]

I can very easily imagine not rubbing it on myself. Chemistry research and especially bio chemical is dangerously as fuck to put your testing shot on yourself. It’s also one the absolute biggest no no’s in the lab

[@PatchouliPenny]

But it's only tartrazine! It's not dangerous. At least if small quantities are eaten, it's not.

[@Noooiiiissseee]

Yeah that's how science works. If you don't rub things on yourself then your research must not work on humans.

[@skraaaaz]

They already have glow in the dark mice too. It’s just a matter of time before it gets legal to adjust things like this to your body.

[@pjef1956]

This is why I love your channel... amazing science information that you don't learn about anywhere else. This is the sort of stuff we should be learning about on NewsNation, not talking head "experts" whose opinions really have no value for us ....

[@devalue7064]

Why ethical reasons prevents testing it on humans? What is unethical about applying a yellow food die on skin?

[@dearthditch]

Especially since we eat literal tons of it each month

[@HughJanus9999]

Tartrazine has shown notable reproductive organ damage in large quantities

[@willjohnsonjohnson]

Nothing. I bet it doesn't work that great on human skin, but they don't want to miss out on extra funding for research.

[@micmacha]

The issue was that human skin is about ten times thicker than a mouse's, so effective application is going to be trickier.

[@zeropolicy7456]

My guess are the potential risks. Altering how our bodies refract light could have potential side effects. Our bodies aren't designed to have our interal organs absorb external light, so it could cause damage. Plus, there's a whole range of experimentation needed to be done on other subjects, studying both short and long term effects, before something like this ever gets greenlit for human testing.

[@theblindbuildergrandminuti5648]

Man, that is such a cool diagnostic, if it’s 100% safe imagine how cool that would be for a little kids to see that and get curious about medicine.

[@JMSouchak]

7:30 What ethical reasons?

[@g2k222]

Touché, the scientist needs to do some self experimentation lol. I would try this if I had yellow dye

[@1dustbranch111]

Dude I thought he was building up for big reveal, but NooOOOoo! Ethics!

[@Snaekyy]

“Three dyes (Red 40, Yellow 5, and Yellow 6) have been found to be contaminated with benzidine or other carcinogens. At least four dyes (Blue 1, Red 40, Yellow 5, and Yellow 6) cause hypersensitivity reactions. Numerous microbiological and rodent studies of Yellow 5 were positive for genotoxicity.” - Kobylewski S, Jacobson MF. Toxicology of food dyes. Int J Occup Environ Health. 2012 Jul-Sep;18(3):220-46. doi: 10.1179/1077352512Z.00000000034. PMID: 23026007. (I was curious as well, this is what i could find)

[@DoozyyTV]

I'll do it myself using yellow m&ms

[@RB-ej8wk]

in most US states the color yellow is illegal

[@medhathobo]

So, someone just has to test if yellow dye makes us transparent by injecting it in to the skin, and we already have a tool for that. There is no way tattoo artists aren't out there buying yellow dye right now.

[@wwkk4964]

I once fell into a tub of tartrazine, it's true folks, it works.

[@pilotnamealreadytaken6035]

I hope you enjoy that permanent smile

[@wwkk4964]

@@pilotnamealreadytaken6035 I know!

[@InsertHandleHere968]

Who said that!?!?!

[@IndiBrony]

Honestly, I just don't see it happening

[@benjaminwilson3216]

This would be perfect for people saying they're in pain, as you could literally see everything and in fine detail

[@carterdjohnson9673]

Our eyes are most sensitive to yellow-green light. The sensitivity of the eye falls off as wavelengths get longer (redder). or shorter (bluer). Violet light has an even shorter wavelength than blue light, so it is farther from the wavelength of maximum sensitivity than blue light.

[@ryanjohnson3615]

So I heard awhile ago that in some places they are putting blue lights in public restrooms so junkies wont go in there to shoot up. Makes it so they can't find a vein.

[@farrier2708]

I understand that "blue for boys and pink for girls" is not a coincidence. Men; in general; perceive light further into the blue end of the visible spectrum, whilst women see further into the red. Mmm! Perhaps that fact could be used as an additional gender test for Olympic athletes. 🤔

[@traficdas]

Anything that touches the medical field is NEVER cheap!

[@H1nD009]

how is it that nobody soaked himself in yellow4 by accident and discovered it earlier?...oh nevermind. i hadnt seen the whole video, lol

[@thestudentofficial5483]

I've had my parents told me this and that about artificial colouring sude effects but never heard them said about turning me translucent

[@driedpotatoes]

Ok, NileRed, you know what to do.

[@ascendingdeity]

finally, something that can unite us all.

[@martineldritch]

Studio special makeup effect departments are probably looking into (through) this at this point

[@Aangel452]

Love how you explain science Anton. This is so amazing!

[@crawkn]

It would be very odd if a dye already consumed by humans for many years couldn't be tested on human skin. In the worst case, you could of course test it on a cadaver to determine if it works, before going through the whole safety trials approval process.

[@poisonouspotato1]

Damn bureaucracy

[@tok203]

I just read about it two days ago in a reddit chat about something completely unrelated. Thank you for putting some more facts to it.

[@George-rk7ts]

Weird, but still cool. Thank you, Anton!

[@astrogenetic8591]

similarly look into the skeleton flower. it has small air pockets all throughout the pedals that when dry reflet light, but when it rains, these pockets fill in and the petals become transparent

[@tspis]

FYI Anton: although I'm pretty confident you know the difference between the two, I think you might be accidentally saying "diffraction" when you actually mean "refraction" @ 2:03 Super neat video, by the way - keep up the great work, as always!

[@nicholasn.]

Hi Anton … just an fyi - Tartrazine is NOT ‘harmless’… as a child in the 1980’s it was used to colour some orange drinks, here in the uk.. it’s effect on me was to bring on an asthma attack within seconds… it didn’t take long for me to work out the connection & indeed it is the sole reason at the age of 10 that I began to read ingredient lists on the back of food items.. a practice I still do to this day… I love your channel.. but in this instance I can tell you from my own lived experience that your presentation of this tiny factoid is incorrect… soz mate!

[@VGAstudent]

Now I haven't seen everything.

[@gt6056]

The great Yellow #5 scare of '93. Shrinks your weewee!

[@GeneralChangFromDanang]

I remember that. My brother and I were deathly afraid of Surge soda.

[@andrewepp6763]

Very cool!

[@PhilLesh69]

True invisibility requires not only the cancellation of reflected light from the object but also eliminating the blocking of reflected light from any objects in the background behind the object you are trying to make invisible (or in other words allowing the light from the objects behind it to pass through)

[@MECHANISMUS]

How can a transparent skin let you see intestines? Shouldn't it be fats and muscles first?

[@wooweetbix9412]

With how commonly yellow 5 is used I'm surprised nobody's been covered in a significant amount of it and discovered they can see their muscle definition on a whole new level

[@TangentFuture41]

how has this not been discovered already?? its really that simple? no worker has every dunked their hand in a yellow 5 barrel? we got actual xrays which exploit physics, before a very common food coloring on skin?

[@outerspacedog]

I was thinking the same exact thing which makes me kind of skeptical of this. It’s still kinda cool to think about, though

[@gweebara]

Oh the invisible Man costumes this year are going to be lit...

[@ac281201]

I bought the dye, will report back the results

[@eliseihorobet4702]

That’s going to be super fun for science class in the future. Imagine being back in high school and putting that on your arm so your biology teacher can tell you about how the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

[@thomasgeorgecastleberry6918]

Invisible Man, one of the greatest books ever written! Yellow dye results in invisibility, where do you come up with this stuff? Why aren't ducklings invisible?

[@Duke_Romilar_III]

Because their skin isn't yellow.

[@friartist]

Most of them are, but of course you would not know for obvious reasons. We only see the imperfect ones :-)

[@erikjonromnes]

This gives new meaning to getting cleared.

[@aiforculture]

This is a small detail, but I really appreciate that your CGI illustrations depicted both male and female body types. So often it's always male by default, and this can imply a medical 'default' to male in a way which can build up bias. So switching between different body types here is a cool move!

[@troliskimosko]

Great point

[@iowafarmboy]

This is actually really huge with some big immediate applications! As having done volunteer EMS in the past, this could greatly help with in field diagnosis and stabilization of many injuries and medical conditions

[@deathwrenchcustom]

I now have a complete understanding of Wonder Woman's plane. Thanks, Anton!

[@nomadicsynth]

Instructions unclear. Now I'm yellow.

[@0pointsixc247]

This will make research more easy and precise.

[@trojanthedog]

This is a medical marvel. This could be part of home medical kits within just a few years.

[@Jon-hh3gz]

Bizarre this has never been realised when you consider how many people would have worked with it. It does have the hazards: H317: May cause an allergic skin reaction H334: May cause allergy or asthma symptoms or breathing difficulties if inhaled

[@Vlauxa]

"Hey how's it going?" * friend is screaming because my skin is transparent *

[@kerensastephens9638]

Next level Medical imaging .. no expensive scanners and omg, my job will be on the line..

[@danbernardes1726]

"wasn't tested on humans for obvious ethical reasons" LOL I bet the first thing one would do when seeing a transparent mouse was to put a bit on their own hand 😅