#hypoxia

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Humans are not yet done cooking. We're continuing to evolve and adjust to the world around us, the records of our adaptations written in our bodies. We know that there are some environments that can make us unwell. Mountain climbers often succumb to altitude sickness – the body's reaction to a significant drop in atmospheric pressure, which means less oxygen is taken in with each breath. And yet, in high altitudes on the Tibetan Plateau, where oxygen levels in the air people breathe are notably lower than lower altitudes, human communities thrive.

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The team was there, and you know who. Apparently daddy gets sick and mommy comes running.

…Words were—slippery. Out of his grasp. The–it must be getting worse. The–the–

Click & Detect

Click3D: a method using click chemistry (a class of reactions that make molecules observable) that achieves high-resolution 3D fluorescence imaging of whole organs at unprecedented depth – for example, imaging hypoxia (inadequate tissue oxygen) in a tumour (as shown here) or in the mouse whole brain

Read the published research article here

Video from work by Iori Tamura and colleagues

Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Published in Science Advances, July 2024