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Toothpick: New Molecular Tag IDs Bone and Tooth Minerals (2 of 2)

Caption: Deposits of hydroxyapatite crystal (l.) and the same mineral in a cross section of a human tooth (r.) light up bright green where they’ve been tagged with a new peptide created at NIST to bond specifically to the compound. The peptide has been linked to a fluorescent stain for imaging.

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