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      Nanobody immunostaining for correlated light and electron microscopy with preservation of ultrastructure

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          Morphological and molecular characteristics determine the function of biological tissues. Attempts to combine immunofluorescence and electron microscopy invariably compromise the quality of the ultrastructure of tissue sections. We developed NATIVE, a correlated light and electron microscopy approach that preserves ultrastructure while showing the locations of multiple molecular moieties even deep within tissues. This technique allowed the large-scale 3D reconstruction of a volume of mouse hippocampal CA3 tissue at nanometer resolution.

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              The big data challenges of connectomics.

              The structure of the nervous system is extraordinarily complicated because individual neurons are interconnected to hundreds or even thousands of other cells in networks that can extend over large volumes. Mapping such networks at the level of synaptic connections, a field called connectomics, began in the 1970s with a the study of the small nervous system of a worm and has recently garnered general interest thanks to technical and computational advances that automate the collection of electron-microscopy data and offer the possibility of mapping even large mammalian brains. However, modern connectomics produces 'big data', unprecedented quantities of digital information at unprecedented rates, and will require, as with genomics at the time, breakthrough algorithmic and computational solutions. Here we describe some of the key difficulties that may arise and provide suggestions for managing them.
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                Journal
                101215604
                32338
                Nat Methods
                Nat. Methods
                Nature methods
                1548-7091
                1548-7105
                1 October 2018
                05 November 2018
                December 2018
                05 May 2019
                : 15
                : 12
                : 1029-1032
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Program of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
                [2 ]Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and The Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
                [3 ]Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
                Author notes

                AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS

                X.L and T.F. conceived, designed and implemented NATIVE with contributions from all authors. R.S. assisted in collecting serial sections, EM imaging and aligning EM images. D.B. provided the tracing tool and performed EM-LM alignment and 3D rendering. C.G. led segmentation efforts with contributions from X.L., T.F. and J.C. J.L. and H.P. supervised the work. All authors contributed to data analysis. All authors contributed to writing of the manuscript.

                [* ]Correspondence should be addressed to J.L. ( jeff@ 123456mcb.harvard.edu ) or H.P. ( hidde.ploegh@ 123456childrens.harvard.edu )
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                NIHMS1507655
                10.1038/s41592-018-0177-x
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                clem,nanobody,ultrastructure,immunostaining,connectomics
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