Brighter, smaller probes to uncover the secret lives of proteins
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 - 07:01
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) -- Imagine tracking a deer through a forest by clipping a radio transmitter to its ear and monitoring the deers location remotely. Now imagine that transmitter is the size of a house, and you understand the problem researchers may encounter when they try to use nanoparticles to track proteins in live cells.