In this study, the authors are looking primarily for fluorescent proteins, and the article says that "Scale renders mouse brain and embryos transparent while completely preserving fluorescent signals from labeled cells."

It seem like the goal here is to be able to take a mutant mouse that expresses a fluorescent protein in some subset of cells, crack its neck, take out its brain, put it in a solution of Scale, and then use a confocal microscope to create a 3D reconstruction of the distribution of the fluorescent protein. That's pretty cool...

I can't wait for someone to have their tattoo ripped out of their skin in an MRI.

March 10 is World Kidney Day!

I would guess that this is a fake. At least in the U.S., we never get video that looks that good.

Maybe it's the brain tumor, and not the Starbucks, that made him happy.