Sweet! Sugar-coated probe yields better acid test
Friday, August 11, 2017 - 21:02
in Biology & Nature
When our cells' acid-alkaline balance goes wrong, it can go wrong in a big way -- think cancer and cystic fibrosis. New fluorescent probes make it easier to detect pH and sweetened the deal by adding sugar to his acid-sensitive probes, making them much friendlier to living tissue.