Molecular morphology is a field of microscopy, histology, and cytology that has emerged from the combination and adaptation of techniques formerly developed for immunology, biochemistry, and molecular biology. Specialists in the discipline detail laboratory protocols in a cookbook form for other laboratory scientists. Their topics include immuno-staining techniques for the co-localization of multiple peptide anginas in light microscopy, gold cluster labels and related technologies, high throughput morphological gene expression studies using automated mRNA in situ hybridization applications and tissue microarrays for post-genomic and clinical research, and the three-dimensional full color demonstration of bright-field and fluorescence microscopic preparations using the digital optical microscope. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Molecular Morphology of Human Tissue with Light Microscopy presents various molecular morphological techniques to be used in medical diagnostics, biomedical research and biotechnology. Written by experts in the field, the book includes recently reported "futuristic" methodologies, such as the 3-dimensional demonstration of full color microscopic images obtained in normal bright field microscopy, which does not depend on the need for costly laser-equipped machinery (such as confocal microscopes) and for the first time gives 3D reproduction of the whole spectrum of transmitted and fluorescent light illumination.