Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Tracking small things in cells

Living cells can react to disturbances with a changed metabolism, but direct observation of trafficking metabolites in live cells is difficult. An international team of scientists has now developed a class of remarkably small fluorophores called SCOTfluors. The dyes emit light in the visible to near-infrared range and can be attached to common metabolites.

from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2ZIsUZv

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