RNA Droplets (IMAGE)

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RNA Droplets

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Like stars in the night, liquid droplets of RNA (the bright green spheres) float in a solution containing high concentrations of divalent magnesium cations. The droplets are imaged through confocal fluorescence microscopy.

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Credit: P. Onuchic, A. Milin, I. Alshareedah, A. Deniz and P. Banerjee, Scientific Reports, Aug. 21, 2019. This work is licensed under CC BY-4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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