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Turning the spotlight on cellular imaging

Nature Biotechnology volume 19, pages 1013–1017 (2001)Cite this article

Advances in imaging are enabling researchers to track more accurately the localization of macromolecules in cells.

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Figure 1: A schematic illustrating the different approaches used in preparing water-soluble nanocrystals and to conjugate quantum dots to biomolecules.

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Figure 2: How molecular beacons operate. The molecular beacon has a quencher (blue circle) opposite a harvester fluorophore (green circle) when it is in a hairpin confirmation.

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