#fixed tissue

Nervous Revelations

Tissue samples from biopsies or post-mortem can be stored long-term by 'fixing' in formalin but this treatment ruins the potential for many kinds of subsequent analyses. Here, visualising neurons and their circuitry in fixed brain samples is made possible using a tissue clearing and molecular labelling techniques

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Image from work by Ya-Hui Lin and colleagues

Department of Biomedical Engineering and Environmental Sciences, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in eLife, May 2024