Illuminating Disease
by Zimmer, Marc
Since scientists began experimenting with green fluorescent proteins in the middle of the 1990s, these proteins have become one of the most important tools available to researchers in modern medicine and biology. By using them to illuminate other proteins that were previously invisible even under microscope, scientists are now able to observe facets of disease that would have otherwise gone undetected. Green fluorescent proteins are a part of over three million experiments a year, and are inval…
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- Full title :Illuminating Disease
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Since scientists began experimenting with green fluorescent proteins in the middle of the 1990s, these proteins have become one of the most important tools available to researchers in modern medicine and biology. By using them to illuminate other proteins that were previously invisible even under microscope, scientists are now able to observe facets of disease that would have otherwise gone undetected. Green fluorescent proteins are a part of over three million experiments a year, and are invaluable for tasks such as tracking HIV, breeding bird flu-resistant chickens, and confirming the existe ...
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- Publication Date:2014
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2014
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (241 Seiten)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780199362813, 0199362815, 9780199362820, 0199362823
- oclc:ocn919901320
- LC Classification:QP552.G73 Z57 2014
- Dewey Decimal:616.0754
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