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Disease hunters enlarge the enemy to get a better look

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Aug. 1, 2017

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Developed by Ed Boyden and researchers in the Synthetic Neurobiology group, Expansion Pathology (ExPath) enlarges tissue samples to improve diagnostics by allowing pathologists to examine nanoscale features without an electron microscope.

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