The future for intracellular imaging looks bright with the development of fluorescent probes made entirely of RNA. The cunning design exploits structural attributes of RNA to detect a variety of small molecules.
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Famulok, M. Green fluorescent RNA. Nature 430, 976–977 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/430976a
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