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The dye in Doritos can make mice transparent

www.popsci.com The dye in Doritos can make mice transparent

'It’s not magic, but it’s still very powerful.'

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adm6869

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“We strongly discourage attempting this on human skin, as the toxicology of dye molecules in humans, particularly when applied topically, has not been fully evaluated,” he tells Popular Science.

I feel like it's only a matter of time before this becomes a TikTok trend.

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- Wait, let me get this straight: they're not even sure if Yellow #5/Tartrazine is safe to be applied topically, but it's FDA-approved to be ingested?
  
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  Things absorbed through the skin may be in a different state when they reach your bloodstream than things that are ingested. The process of digestion can break down a lot of things that would otherwise be harmful, but aren't similarly filtered when absorbed through the skin.
  
  It's also why some medicines are taken by swallowing a pill, and some are taken by dissolving a tablet under your tongue.
  
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  Vinegar isn't good for the skin either. But healthy if ingested.
  
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- Trump's way ahead of you there.
  
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- $15 a pound on Amazon...
  
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  I believe have a problem with the cuboid bone in my foot, and I've been waiting over a year for a podiatrist. I wonder if I can see if there's a crack in it myself... It's close enough to the surface that it should be visible if that really works? I wonder how no one who works with the stuff has ever noticed this before
  
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- eating Doritos with dorito dust all over fingers
  
  Well….uh, ok?
  
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- It also means "we don't know (yet)" so there is a chance it's not that toxic.
  
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“massaging tartrazine solution into hairless mouse skin over the course of a few minutes or using microneedling achieves “complete optical transparency in the red region of the visible spectrum”

I know it didn’t happen this way but I like to believe it was someone having their unwashed dorito fingers after lunch, decided to massage a mouse for several minutes, and figuring this out

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- No that's probably exactly what happened. Most discoveries happen serendipitously.
  
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- Their name, Lennie.
  
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  Come to think of it, I didn't see any claims about no animals being harmed...
  
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- Sounds like a masturbation injury if I've ever heard of one, the mouse is clearly a cover
  
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  A scientist frantically looking for something to rub dorito dust on, before everyone else get into the lab the next morning.
  
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- Smoke some, eat snacks and try using real mouse with your laptop.
  
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How the fuck can anyone say science sucks

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- Have you ever seen a vacuum chamber? Science does suck ... and it's fucking awesome at it. 🥁
  
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  Erm technically that's the air pushing not the vacuum sucking 🤓
  
  Neil DeGrasse Tyson, probably
  
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- Because doing science sometimes DOES suck. I bang my head on my desk doing science sometimes, and I dislike it.
  
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  Do different science. I felt like that for so long working on potentially unsolvable problems. Now I work on very difficult, but solvable problems that save lives.
  
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  It’s called research. You search for something, can’t find it, so you try again; hence the prefix.
  
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- Doritos stock about to explode
  
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All I read was, Eat more Doritos to become invisible...

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- Some of us can't be trusted with such power. I would personally use invisibility to switch items in people's coat pockets. Keys always in the left? Well now they're in the right pocket!
  
  Total anarchy.
  
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  Go around crossing all lowercase Ls into Ts. Or add serif and turn them into uppercase i.
  
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- wait till you find out what redbull offers
  
  the ultimate question: Flight or Invisibility ?
  
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  Why not both?
  
  I'll just pound redbulls and doritos until I become a ghost. Shouldn't take long, I'd expect.
  
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This is awesome! How long until we have invisibility potions?

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- How much Doritos dust are you willing to inhale?
  
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  The spice must flow
  
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  For invisibility? All the dust.
  
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  Depends on the flavor.
  
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  This is the real reason why 4chan users are not seen in public
  
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  About 2 party size bags in a day.
  
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Halloween is going to be lit this year bitches. Release the ghost mice!!!

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Remember where you are so you can tell your kids what you were doing before the “xtreme flavor blasted mousepocalypse”.

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- I now suddenly want an idocracy game where you stop the xtreme flavor blasted mousepocalypse from happening
  
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But the real question is... How do they taste?

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- Crispy.
  
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  350° for 35 minutes?
  
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- The mice or the domino's?
  
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That doesn't sound like something we should be putting in our bodies then does it?

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- Yellow 5 is super common (in the US) for things that go inside our bodies. Doritos, Mt Dew, probably Red Bull. When we were kids there was a rumor that it would shrink your dick haha.
  
  Read the ingredients on stuff the next few days and take note of how often you see it. It's probably why they chose it as one of the test substances. It's relatively safe to eat.
  
  What is unknown is how dangerous it is to absorb large amounts into someone's skin.
  
  It's like the illegal weed vape pen issue years ago. People would cut the product with vitamin e to thicken it and also make more money. Vitamin E is safe for human consumption. Turns out its vapor is terrible for lungs. It's quite unsafe for that kind of consumption.
  
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  Highly recommend anyone reading check out an app called Yuka. You scan barcodes and it'll give you a score of the ingredients and why things are rated the way they are. Not always 100%, but better than trying to just figure out if carboxymethylcellulose is safe, (it is) let alone pronouncable.
  
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- The article says non toxic
  
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  No, the article, or I should I say ads with writing in between, says"potentially non-toxic". Which I find to be a highly troublesome qualifier.
  
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So like, this is a positive right

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us food safety gore

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Finally!

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So, I skimmed the article and may have missed it. Why is this anything more that tinkering with and (maybe torturing) mice? What's the actual scientific value here? (Assuming invisibility potion wasn't an actual goal)

Perhaps medical dyes for imaging?

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- They applied a yellow, food-safe dye to the skin of the mice and found it caused light to refract in such a way that their skin became significantly more transparent. An article I read (I did not read this one) listed some potential uses like making veins visible for blood draws and more precise tattoo removal. The dye washed off afterwards.
  
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- What's the actual scientific value here?
  
  Transparent mice with multiple butts
  
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- What do you mean? To make people invisible bro.
  
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Doritos suck. Oh they might say HOT but what they really mean is: pussy ass chip.

I miss Paqie ghost pepper chips. Fucking Hersheys ....

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