SnapShot: Tissue Clearing.

Richardson, Douglas S; Lichtman, Jeff W · Cell · 2017

review · Level V

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Abstract

Tissue clearing has become an important tool for the investigation of biological systems in three dimensions. However, many pioneering techniques were based on serendipitous discoveries. Next-generation clearing methods have been (re)designed with a better understanding of the chemistry and physics required to equalize the refractive index throughout a sample which prevents the random bending of light that clouds biological tissues.

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