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by roshankhan28 656 days ago
what are we trying to achieve with making skin transparent? I dont see a use case. anyone want to help me with it? please tell me more about it.
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I can think of a use case. The same one we have for modified transparent Zebra Fish in medical research.

That is so that you can observe features such as the circulatory system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebrafish#Transparent_adult_bo...

In addition to the medical usecases listed in the other comments, it's also just pretty cool.
Knee hurts, doctor can have a look and literally see what's wrong.
Diagnosing some internal illnesses without xray or MRI.
xray can only pick up information up to a level.

an extra tool(window to our inner bits) without the necessity of making a biopsy is always welcome.