Luminescent Imaging with Nano-lanterns
Type
Blog Post
Published
May 25, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
...affected by light. Long-term light exposure can also lead to cellular phototoxicity, and experimental success...can be affected by both autofluorescence and photobleaching. Researchers have long been interested in using...reality, Addgene depositor Takeharu Nagai and colleagues at Osaka University have developed Nano-lantern... cells. As Nano-lanterns are not subject to photobleaching/phototoxicity, they successfully imaged multiple...applications. For long-term imaging, especially where photobleaching and phototoxicity are a concern, these constructs...Addgene.
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