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Hitting the sweet spot

A strategy that uses genetically encoded GFP-tagged antibodies allows in vivo imaging of extracellular non–genetically encoded molecules.

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Figure 1: Visualizing epitopes in vivo.

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Kulkarni, G., Wadsworth, W. Hitting the sweet spot. Nat Methods 9, 451–453 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1987

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