Photorelease Example (IMAGE)

University of Washington

Photorelease Example

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Photorelease of proteins from a hydrogel. Top: The mCherry red fluorescent proteins are tethered to the hydrogel. Researchers can cleave the tether with directed light (blue arrows), releasing the mCherry from the hydrogel (blue arrows). Bottom: An image of the hydrogel after mCherry release patterned in the shape of the University of Washington mascot (black). Scale bar is 100 micrometers.

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Shadish, Benuska and DeForest, 2019, <em>Nature Materials</em>.

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