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A new way to look at fat

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Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) microscopy is used to directly visualize lipids in cells and model organisms, and facilitates screening for genes involved in fat storage.

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  1. Department of Cell Biology, Joerg Bewersdorf and Tobias C. Walther are at the Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.,

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  2. Robert V. Farese Jr. is at the J. David Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and the Department of Medicine and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.,

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