New technique captures chemical reactions in a single living cell at unprecedented resolution

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Shown is a graphic of lights scattering from metallic nanoplasmonic particles upon excitation of an external light source. Metallic nanoparticles can be coupled with biomolecules to help detect chemical signals within a single living cell at unpreced ...
Shown is a graphic of lights scattering from metallic nanoplasmonic particles upon excitation of an external light source. Metallic nanoparticles can be coupled with biomolecules to help detect chemical signals within a single living cell at unprecedented resolution. Credit: Graphic by Gang Logan Liu and Luke Lee, UC Berkeley

Bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have discovered a technique that for the first time enables the detection of biomolecules' dynamic reactions in a single living cell.


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