Question: why does 3D imaging help understand how our immune cells are involved in skin repair and wound healing?

Jason Chu answered on 1 Jun 2018:

So at the moment one of the best ways to understand what is happening in skin repair is taking a small snapshots of what’s going on under the skin (immunohistochemistry). However this means that we are only looking at the damaged skin in a single time-point in a single slice (imagine one slice of bread in a whole loaf).

However, with 3D imaging, I want to look at the whole wounded skin and watch the immune cells over time. This means we can see the whole thing in 3D, and in real-time. (Imagine being able to video the whole loaf, inside and out).