Fluorescent Probe Sheds Light on Tuberculosis Bacteria (2 of 2) (VIDEO)

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A fluorescent 3D movie showing two macrophages (purple) infected by tuberculosis bacteria tagged with the probe (green). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 15, 2018, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by Y. Cheng at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, CA; and colleagues was titled, " Rapid and specific labeling of single live Mycobacterium tuberculosis with a dual-targeting fluorogenic probe."

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Y. Cheng<i> et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2018)

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