Fluorescent protein imaging is an indispensable tool in life science research, enabling visualization of protein movement and localization, gene expression, signaling pathways, protein-protein ...

Researchers have developed a new method of switching the Dendra2 fluorescent protein from its green to red form. This phenomenon does not inflict damage to the cells under study, and can be used for a ...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Nov. 23 (UPI) --Scientists have created a bright red protein that can be used to tag and track cells and cellular processes. The breakthrough will aid stem-cell and cancer ...

Scientists that study molecules in cells use a common tool to spotlight the proteins they are interested in - they mark stuff in the cell with tags that light up when illuminated by fluorescent ...

Despite expansion of the fluorescent protein and optical highlighter palette into the orange to far-red range of the visible spectrum, achieving performance equivalent to that of EGFP has continued to ...

After years of trying, biologists have succeeded in creating an extremely bright red fluorescent protein in the lab. This is good news for researchers, including cancer and stem cell researchers, who ...

It has been over 60 years since Osamu Shimomura et al. discovered Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) 1. Since then, the color palette for fluorescent proteins has been extended to span blue through to ...

In daylight, the experimental silkworms appeared pink, but under ultraviolet light, they had a bright red glow. Liu et.al., 2022 In a new study, silkworms were fed nanoscale crystals called quantum ...

To understand why a cell divides, secretes hormones or transmits a signal to another cell, biologists often use a trick. They attach coloured lights to the proteins of interest, so that they can ...

Fluorescent proteins are widely used in biological research to make all kinds of cell types or structures visible. Think of, for example, stem cells or proteins related to cancer. A research team from ...

When you look up at the blue sky, where are the stars that you see at night? They’re there but we can’t see them. A firefly flitting across a field is invisible to us during the day, but at night we ...