Saturday, July 30, 2011

ScienceDaily: Biotechnology News

ScienceDaily: Biotechnology News


Powerful fluorescence tool lights the way to new insights into RNA of living cells

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 02:57 PM PDT

The ability to tag proteins with a green fluorescent light to watch how they behave inside cells so revolutionized the understanding of protein biology that it earned the scientific teams who developed the technique Nobel Prizes in 2008. Now, researchers have developed a similar fluorescent tool that can track the mysterious workings of the various forms of cellular RNA.

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