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Do-it-yourself (DIY) pathology

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To the Editor:

An exchange of correspondence in your November issue highlighted the importance of precise terminology for pathology data and terminology in scientific research and literature1. In the past few decades, several developments in technology have significantly increased the use of pathology in basic and translational research. For example, the development of genetically engineered mice has resulted in the creation of an ever-increasing variety of murine disease models. And more recently, availability of new technologies, such as mRNA expression arrays and tissue microarrays, has allowed basic researchers to work with patient tissue samples. Even so, the application of these technologies appears to have outpaced our ability to properly evaluate the resulting data2.

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  1. Department of Pathology, Division of Women's and Perinatal Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis St., Boston, 02115, Massachusetts, USA

    Tan A Ince, Massimo Loda & Christopher P Crum

  2. Global Vet Pathology, Montgomery Village, 20886, Maryland, USA

    Jerrold M Ward

  3. Department of Pathobiology, Pathobiology and Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, MC 004 Rm. 284 SAC, 1008W, Hazelwood Dr., Urbana, 61802, Illinois, USA

    Victor E Valli

  4. Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Molecular Pathology Research and Cancer Center, Building 149, 13th St., Charlestown, 02129, Massachusetts, USA

    Dennis Sgroi

  5. Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, T2 014A Veterinary Research Tower, Ithaca, 14853-6401, New York, USA

    Alexander Yu Nikitin

  6. Center for Molecular Oncologic Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney St., Dana 740B, Boston, 02115, Massachusetts, USA

    Massimo Loda

  7. Comparative Pathology Laboratory, Clinical Professor, School of Veterinary Medicine, Old Davis Rd/Building R-1, University Of California, Davis, Davis, 95616, California, USA

    Stephen M Griffey

  8. Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, College of Medicine, Gainesville, 32610-0275, Florida, USA

    James M Crawford

  9. Rodent Histopathology Core, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, 220 Longwood Ave., Boston, 02115, Massachusetts, USA

    Roderick T Bronson

  10. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Center for Comparative Medicine, University of California, Davis, County Road 98 and Hutchison Drive, Davis, 95616, California, USA

    Robert D Cardiff

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Ince, T., Ward, J., Valli, V. et al. Do-it-yourself (DIY) pathology. Nat Biotechnol 26, 978–979 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0908-978

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