CT tissue images can now be virtually stained in 3D

Rudolf Virchow fundamentally changed medicine when he formulated his cell theory of disease in the 19th century: Diseases do not arise inexplicably within the organism, but rather in specific cells and tissues.

To this day, pathology—the study of disease processes—is essentially based on the time-consuming examination of thin tissue sections, which are stained and then viewed under a microscope. ...