We are developing improved methods for imaging through thick intact tissue samples at high resolution by rendering them optically transparent and permeable to stains, antibodies and nucleic acid probes.
Gradinaru lab publications in PubMed and bioRxiv.
2023
CRISPR-clear imaging of melanin-rich B16-derived solid tumors
April 4 2023, Communications Biology
Schubert R, Bae T, Simic B, Smith SN, Park S-H, Nagy-Davidescu G, Gradinaru V, Plückthun A, Hur JK
2021
Light-guided sectioning for precise in situ localization and tissue interface analysis for brain-implanted optical fibers and GRIN lenses
Sep 28, 2021, Cell Rep
Kahan A, Greenbaum A, Jang MJ, Robinson JE, Cho JR, Chen X, Kassraian P, Wagenaar DA, Gradinaru V.
The SHREAD gene therapy platform for paracrine delivery improves tumor localization and intratumoral effects of a clinical antibody
May 25, 2021, PNAS
Sheena N. Smith, Rajib Schubert, Branko Simic, Dominik Brücher, Markus Schmid, Niels Kirk, Patrick C. Freitag, Viviana Gradinaru, and Andreas Plückthun
2020
Tissue clearing and its applications in neuroscience
January 2, 2020, Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Hiroki R. Ueda, Ali Ertürk, Kwanghun Chung, Viviana Gradinaru, Alain Chédotal, Pavel Tomancak, Philipp J. Keller
2019
Identification of peripheral neural circuits that regulate heart rate using optogenetic and viral vector strategies
April 26, 2019, Nature Communications
Pradeep S. Rajendran, Rosemary C. Challis, Charless C. Fowlkes, Peter Hanna, John D. Tompkins, Maria C. Jordan, Sarah Hiyari, Beth A. Gabris-Weber, Alon Greenbaum, Ken Y. Chan, Benjamin E. Deverman, Heike Münzberg, Jeffrey L. Ardell, Guy Salama, Viviana Gradinaru, Kalyanam Shivkumar
2018
Whole-Brain Analysis of Cells and Circuits by Tissue Clearing and Light-Sheet Microscopy
October 31, 2018, The Journal of Neuroscience
Tomoyuki Mano, Alexandre Albanese, Hans-Ulrich Dodt, Ali Erturk, Viviana Gradinaru, Jennifer B. Treweek, Atsushi Miyawaki, Kwanghun Chung, Hiroki R. Ueda
Hydrogel-Tissue Chemistry: Principles and Applications
May 24, 2018, Annual Review of Biophysics
Viviana Gradinaru, Jennifer Treweek, Kristin Overton, Karl Deisseroth
2017
Q&A: How can advances in tissue clearing and optogenetics contribute to our understanding of normal and diseased biology?
September 25, 2017, BMC Biology
Alon Greenbaum, Min J. Jang, Collin Challis, Viviana Gradinaru
Bone CLARITY: Clearing, imaging, and computational analysis of osteoprogenitors within intact bone marrow
April 26, 2017, Science Translational Medicine
Alon Greenbaum, Ken Y. Chan, Tatyana Dobreva, David Brown, Deepak H. Balani, Rogely Boyce, Henry M. Kronenberg, Helen J. McBride, Viviana Gradinaru
2016
Exposing the Three-Dimensional Biogeography and Metabolic States of Pathogens in Cystic Fibrosis Sputum via Hydrogel Embedding, Clearing, and rRNA Labeling
September 27, 2016, mBio
William H. DePas, Ruth Starwalt-Lee, Lindsey Van Sambeek, Sripriya Ravindra Kumar, Viviana Gradinaru, Dianne K. Newman
Extracting structural and functional features of widely distributed biological circuits with single cell resolution via tissue clearing and delivery vectors
July 6, 2016, Current Opinion in Biotechnology
Jennifer Brooke Treweek, Viviana Gradinaru
Single-molecule RNA detection at depth by hybridization chain reaction and tissue hydrogel embedding and clearing
June 24, 2016, Development
Sheel Shah, Eric Lubeck, Maayan Schwarzkopf, Ting-Fang He, Alon Greenbaum, Chang Ho Sohn, Antti Lignell, Harry M. T. Choi, Viviana Gradinaru, Niles A. Pierce, Long CaiarticleTroubleshooting
2015
Whole-body tissue stabilization and selective extractions via tissue-hydrogel hybrids for high-resolution intact circuit mapping and phenotyping
October 19, 2015, Nature Protocols
Jennifer B Treweek, Ken Y Chan, Nicholas C Flytzanis, Bin Yang, Benjamin E Deverman, Alon Greenbaum, Antti Lignell, Cheng Xiao, Long Cai, Mark S Ladinsky, Pamela J Bjorkman, Charless C Fowlkes, Viviana Gradinaru
2014
Single-Cell Phenotyping within Transparent Intact Tissue through Whole-Body Clearing
July 31, 2014, Cell
Bin Yang, Jennifer B. Treweek, Rajan P. Kulkarni, Benjamin E. Deverman, Chun-Kan Chen, Eric Lubeck, Sheel Shah, Long Cai, Viviana Gradinaru