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Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University

Caption

When researchers added the enzyme urease to the solution, the reaction created a pH gradient that caused all the molecules within the droplet to flow, as shown by the green fluorescence.

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OIST Protein Engineering and Evolution

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