"Naturally" Glowing Cotton Yields Dazzling New Threads (3 of 9) (IMAGE)

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"Naturally" Glowing Cotton Yields Dazzling New Threads (3 of 9)

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Microscopic image of the cotton fibers after incorporation of the fluorescent exogenous molecule. This image was taken under a binocular under UV light showing the fluorescent fibers. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 15 September 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by F. Natalio at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg in Halle, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "Biological fabrication of cellulose fibers with tailored properties."

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Filipe Natalio

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