NIAID Develops New 3D Tissue Imaging Technique

A team of researchers with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have been hard at work developing a new, detailed method of 3D visualizing how cell types are distributed in complex tissues, such as tumors, called Clearing-Enhanced 3D microscopy (C_e3D). Chemical tissue clearing techniques are used by hospital laboratories and researchers to make dense, opaque tissue transparent when they need detailed images of tissue samples, especially from tumor cells, which then lets scientists use state-of-the-art microscopes to identify and figure out the distribution of certain cells that could be cancerous and have already been marked with easy-to-see antibodies or fluorescent compounds. This new 3D tissue imaging technique could help medical researchers provide evaluations of how well various immunotherapies are targeting complex cancers. Read more at 3DPrint.com: http://3dprint.com/184563/niaid-3d-cell-imaging-method/

http://3dprint.com/wp-content/upload...ringimage2.png