New microscopy technology to analyze brain cancer tissue:  light blue and yellow are different proteins associated with tumors; pink is maker for astrocytes

“Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a founding member of Mass General Brigham, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have unveiled unprecedentedly detailed images of brain cancer tissue through the use of a new microscopy technology called decrowding expansion pathology (dexpath).  . . . .  Their new technology chemically modifies tissues by embedding them in a gel and ‘softening’ the tissues with a special chemical treatment that separates protein structures without destroying them and which allows tissues to expand. This provided exciting findings to the MIT and Brigham researchers, who routinely use commercially available antibodies to bind to and illuminate biomarkers in a sample.”    MORE

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