FLUORO 2 (IMAGE)

Rice University

FLUORO 2

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At top, a sequence shows the design of thio-caged dyes designed at Rice University to be triggered by visible light. At bottom, confocal and super-resolution imaging of a lipid droplet in living adipocytes incubated with BODIPY (green), SNile Red (red) and Hoechst 33342 (blue), followed by photoactivation using a 561 nm laser. Scale bar: 10 μm. Scale bar for super-resolution image of lipid droplet labeled with SNile Red, bottom right: 1 μm.

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Xiao Lab/Rice University

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