Fluorescent Proteins 101: Monitoring Cell Mobility Using Fluorescent Proteins
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...appropriate containers. The machine is useful for distinguishing cell populations that have been tagged with...visualize how cells interact after a particular stimulus. Using an epifluorescence microscope and GFP fusion...easily track GFP expressing cells. For example, by harvesting lymph nodes at different times after antigen ...immunologists the ability to count cells and statistically analyze cell movements. By using cells labelled...immune response, but the study of these dynamics was still laborious as epifluorescence microscopy wasn’t able...aureus and eating the bacteria.
Some of the many questions scientists have been able to help answer using...understood thanks to these technologies but many questions remain. The use of other technologies such as ...