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> The team then smeared the yellow dye on a mouse’s underbelly, making the abdominal skin see-through and revealing the rodent’s intestines and organs. > The p
by Intralexical 2y ago
> The team then smeared the yellow dye on a mouse’s underbelly, making the abdominal skin see-through and revealing the rodent’s intestines and organs.
> The procedure has not yet been tested on humans and researchers will need to show it is safe to use, particularly if the dye is injected beneath the skin.
How did they resist the urge to sneak a peak at their own arm or one of their fingers?
- siva7 2y agoYou don't play with chemicals
- lazide 2y agoClearly you don’t know many chemists? You might as well tell EOD to not play with explosives!
- DocFeind 2y agoconfirmed as correct
- diggan 2y agoEven when the play is "touching" and the chemicals are "food dyes"? I wouldn't say I'm a risk taker, but even I would probably try that out for giggles.
- lm28469 2y agoThat's kind of how we got LSD, saccharin and microwave ovens. (not really "playing with" but not being super careful about safety)
- perlgeek 2y agoEven if not intentional, such things happen by accident. Have you ever read up on how the psychedelic properties of LSD were discovered? > While re-synthesizing LSD, he accidentally absorbed a small amount of the drug and discovered its powerful effects From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_LSD#Discovery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_LSD#Discovery
- screamingninja 2y ago> You don't play with chemicals How else do you learn?
- Perenti 2y agoI did, as a kid. Blew up the kitchen. Got good at home chemistry. Still do at times, but it's much harder to get the good stuff, like KNO3.
- TomMasz 2y agoIt's a food dye, if you can eat it you certainly can put it on your skin. And they probably did but don't want to announce that they experimented on themselves.
- Findecanor 2y agoThat's not a safe assumption. There have been cases where food flavourings have been tried in e-cigarette liquids and caused irritation in the users' airways.
- collingreen 2y agoIrritation and/or the often fatal, incurable, and horrifyingly named "Bronchiolitis obliterans" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronchiolitis_obliterans https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronchiolitis_obliterans
- eurleif 2y agoTo be clear, there are no documented cases of bronchiolitis obliterans caused by vaping. Historically, there were cases among workers in a microwave popcorn factory who were exposed to large quantities of the flavoring chemical diacetyl. Some early e-liquid flavors contained diacetyl, and while the level of exposure was drastically lower than that of a popcorn factory worker, people were concerned about it, and that concern led e-liquid manufacturers to stop using it.
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- delecti 2y agoThe dose makes the poison though. Tartrazine is already in cosmetics, but that doesn't mean a ton of it is still safe.
- speleding 2y agoThis is going to be a Halloween sensation if it ever becomes available to the general public!
- ethanol-brain 2y agoIt looks like you need special sensors and a lot of light in certain wavelengths. Would like to read the paper.
- Palomides 2y agoyou'd probably get fired immediately for doing human experiments without IRB approval
- ithkuil 2y ago"it was an accident!"
- bongoman42 2y agoThis is the real reason.