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Bar-coding biomolecules with fluorescent nanocrystals

Microbeads embedded with quantum dots show promise as a multiplex coding technology for the analysis of nucleic acids and proteins.

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Figure 1: Absorption and emission spectra of a series of size-selected CdSe nanocrystals.

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Rosenthal, S. Bar-coding biomolecules with fluorescent nanocrystals. Nat Biotechnol 19, 621–622 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/90213

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