Hot Plasmids: FRET-Based Biosensors
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... use since the 1980s.
“Synthetic dyes were the standard in the field, but there is one problem: how to...biochemistry of living neurons in an effort to understand the connection between molecular- and cellular-level...elegans, and zebrafish – essentially all of the standard organisms for which extensive genetic tools are...presence of a ligand (they stick together in one state, but not the other).
“It’s quite a robust way to....
“I hope by depositing at Addgene, people will start using them,” Merkx said. “For us, it is one of the...developed something useful [enough] that other people start using it. For us, it’s like a test.”
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