Different luminescent dyes (IMAGE)

University of Göttingen

Different luminescent dyes

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Different luminescent dyes, like these, can be used by researchers to make certain organic moleculars - the building blocks of life which includes sugars, proteins and lipids - visible under a microscope. The ones used in this study were special because tthe specialist dyes begin to glow only when it binds to the target molecule.

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Dongchen Du

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