Better Dyeing Through Chemistry & Small Molecule Fluorophores
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...the photon budget and pushing the frontiers of fluorescence microscopy often requires more photons. For...more photostable than fluorescent proteins, providing a straightforward way to improve the photon budget..., higher fluorogenicity, photoactivation etc.—can further increase the photon budget and allow us to push...small-molecules: red-shifted spectra, ion sensitivity, photoactivation, etc. These impressive advances lead to an ... chemists?
One reason is something called “the photon budget”: each sample has a limited number of fluorophores... each fluorophore can emit a limited number of photons before bleaching. The amount of information one...decrease the number of fluorophores, compromising the photon budget. Likewise, the switch from ensemble imaging...