3D pathology-guided microdissection.

Abstract

Traditional micro- and macrodissection techniques enable the extraction of localized regions in thin tissue sections for molecular analysis. Despite the growing use of three-dimensional (3D) microscopy, analogous methods for volumetric microdissection are lacking. Here we have developed a 3D microdissection method based on computer numerical controlled milling integrated with open-top light-sheet microscopy. We demonstrate the ability to study tumor evolution along convoluted 3D branching architectures, which is inaccessible to two-dimensional methods.

EDRN PI Authors
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Medline Author List
  • Baraznenok E
  • Bishop KW
  • Brenes D
  • Figiel S
  • Gao G
  • Grady WM
  • Haffner MC
  • Hamdy FC
  • Han Q
  • Hsieh HC
  • Konnick EQ
  • Liu JTC
  • Mills IG
  • Paulson TG
  • Pritchard CC
  • Rao SR
  • Reddi DM
  • Reder NP
  • Serafin R
  • True LD
  • Valk JE
  • Wang R
  • Woodcock DJ
  • Yan R
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Nat Methods, 2026 Jun (issue None)