Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc.

Octavian Bucur

Edward Stuart Boyden

Yongxin Zhao

Andrew Hanno Beck

Humayun Irshad

A method for diagnosing cancer in an expanded biological tissue sample of a patient comprising providing at least one sample image of the expanded biological tissue sample; providing a computer configured to analyze the sample; analyzing, with the computer, the sample detect and segment nuclei; calculating, with the computer, molecular characteristics of those nuclei; and determining, with the computer, a diagnosis of cancer of the sample by comparing the sample with a benign normal tissue reference.

Methods for diagnosing neoplastic lesions

The invention provides a method for preparing an expanded renal (kidney) tissue sample suitable for microscopic analysis. Expanding the kidney sample can be achieved by binding, e.g., anchoring, key biomolecules to a polymer network and swelling, or expanding, the polymer network, thereby moving the biomolecules apart as further described herein. As the biomolecules are anchored to the polymer network, isotropic expansion of the polymer network retains the spatial orientation of the biomolecules resulting in an expanded, or enlarged, kidney sample.

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