CLARITY is a method of making brain tissue transparent using
acrylamide-based hydrogels built from within, and linked to, the tissue, and as defined in the initial paper, represents "transformation of intact biological tissue into a hybrid form in which specific components are replaced with exogenous elements that provide new accessibility or functionality". When accompanied with
antibody or gene-based labeling, CLARITY enables highly detailed pictures of the protein and nucleic acid structure of organs, especially the
brain. It was developed by
Karl Deisseroth and his colleagues at the
Stanford University School of Medicine.