Clarity can work on any organ, Chung says, and can even make developing embryos or tumours transparent. The team has successfully turned a 0.5-millimetre-thick section of human brain transparent ...

In 1897, H.G. Wells proposed humans might actually be able to become ... They’re not quite invisible, but they do become nearly completely transparent when those cells are mixed with a salt ...

This basic approach has barely changed in a century, and it's not hard to see why: It's relatively simple, cheap, and keeps leading to powerful drugs and treatments for humans. That's not to say ...

Creating transparent organs relies on a process called ... researchers can exploit these properties to allow light through tissue. Adult human organs tend to build up dense, light-blocking ...