Peering inside dangerous blood clots with optical clearing technique

Monday, July 17, 2017 - 10:02 in Health & Medicine

A new technique that makes blood clots optically clear is allowing researchers to use powerful optical microscopy techniques to study the 3D structure of dangerous clots for the first time. Although blood clots stop bleeding after injury, clots that block blood flow can cause strokes and heart attacks.

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