Comments on: Why can we see through some animals? http://boingboing.net/2012/09/18/why-can-we-see-through-some-an.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Mon, 20 May 2013 04:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: anon user http://boingboing.net/2012/09/18/why-can-we-see-through-some-an.html#comment-1535257 anon user Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:10:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=181622#comment-1535257 ...like other clearing agents and treatments, Scale only works with dead tissue, but the team is working on a milder version that they hope could be used in living creatures in the future... http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/08/31/how-to-make-a-transparent-mouse-with-a-few-simple-ingredients/ ...three cheers for transparency... ...transparency to all...  ...how does this affect the transparency index?... ;) …like other clearing agents and treatments, Scale only works with dead tissue, but the team is working on a milder version that they hope could be used in living creatures in the future…

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/08/31/how-to-make-a-transparent-mouse-with-a-few-simple-ingredients/

…three cheers for transparency…
…transparency to all… 
…how does this affect the transparency index?… ;)

]]> By: huskerdont http://boingboing.net/2012/09/18/why-can-we-see-through-some-an.html#comment-1535007 huskerdont Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:58:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=181622#comment-1535007 "...but suggests a more complex, active process--that their bodies must be constantly working to keep them transparent..."  That doesn't really answer anything, for me, though the rest of the video did a good job. “…but suggests a more complex, active process–that their bodies must be constantly working to keep them transparent…” 

That doesn’t really answer anything, for me, though the rest of the video did a good job.

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