Let There be Light (IMAGE)

University of Basel

Let There be Light

Caption

An artificial metalloenzyme (blue) penetrates a mammalian cell, where it accelerates the release of a hormone (blue to red spheres). This activates a gene switch (circles with arrowheads), which then leads to the production of a fluorescent indicator protein (light green glow around the cell).

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University of Basel, Yasunori Okamoto

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