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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2019
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Edward Stuart Boyden, Chestnut Hill, MA (US);
Andrew Hanno Beck, Brookline, MA (US);
Yongxin Zhao, Quincy, MA (US);
Octavian Bucur, Waltham, MA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
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.