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CLARITY is an acronym for Clear Lipid-exchanged Acrylamide-hybridized Rigid Imaging / Immunostaining / in situ-hybridization-compatible Tissue hYdrogel). Discussions about CLARITY tissue clearing inevitably involve imaging. The two go hand-in-hand. Tissue clearing is what you need to do in order to see beyond the tissue surface at a cellular and subcellular level. It is akin to being able to see in the darkness using night vision goggles or using sunglasses to be able to clearly see the landscape in the presence of bright sunlight. When researchers and scientists want to see inside of a brain, or tumor or study diseased or healthy tissue they first will want to have that tissue cleared of the things that occlude the view.