A mouse found in a barrel of degreaser

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Jondevieon on November 29th, 2021 at 05:20 UTC »

So the degreaser permeated and dissolved the dermis layers, and what we are seeing is the muscle cap membrane which has been made squeaky clean thanks to the cleaning power of Oxyclean.

740THz on November 29th, 2021 at 08:30 UTC »

Lol, sounds like you’ve accidentally rediscovered CUBIC.

For some advanced scientific imaging (especially of brains) tissues are basically steeped in expensive scientific degreaser for days to weeks until they become transparent like this, then some fiddly optical tricks (like light sheet microscopy) can be used to view slices through it without damaging the tissue by actually cutting it.

It basically works by stripping out all the fats (in cells, cell walls, and with the tissue), because most of the light scattering inside thick sections of tissue happens at the boundary between fats and water.

It’s especially useful for tracing delicate, tiny structures like brain cells to trace how they connect up.

Yayzeus on November 29th, 2021 at 10:19 UTC »

Two little mice fell into a bucket of degreaser. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned, but the second mouse, he struggled so hard that he eventually churned that degreaser into butter and he walked out.