Good Timing: NIST/CU Collaboration Adds Timing Capability to Living Cell Sensors (IMAGE)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Good Timing: NIST/CU Collaboration Adds Timing Capability to Living Cell Sensors

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Micrograph of human cells modified to act as metal sensors. Researchers at JILA built hardware to help time the dynamic states of these sensors, which change fluorescence color when they bind metal ions. The cells are false-colored to indicate the extent of their reactions; the darker cells have bound the most metal ions.

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Hairong Ma/JILA

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