Organs made transparent with new imaging technique

Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 15:30 in Physics & Chemistry

By Tanya LewisLiveScience For the first time, scientists have developed a way to make organs transparent to light while keeping them intact, providing a detailed glimpse of their inner structure.Using the new technique, scientists imaged the neurological wiring in a mouse's brain. The method, known as CLARITY (Clear Lipid-exchanged Acrylamide-hybridized Rigid Imaging/Immunostaining/In situ hybridi...    

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