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30 August 2026
Improving the View
Biomedical researchers are always on the look out for ways to uncover finer and finer detail from within living cells – the fluorescent tags they use to highlight such nanoscale specifics need to be non-toxic, long lived and only glow when they're in the right place. Now, a new near-infrared-emitting protein called elite-niRFP704 has been found that enhances the scope of live-cell super resolution microscopy. Pictured are living human cells with various intracellular features disclosed by elite-niRFP704
Read the published research article here
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- Image from work by Florian Habenstein and colleagues
- Department of NanoBiophotonics, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), August 2026
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