FSU researchers make observing cell functions easier

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This image illustrates fluorescence resonance energy transfer works. With FRET the illuminated yellow molecules come together signaling that they are transferring energy in the living cell. Credit: Courtesy of Michael Davidson National High Magnetic ...
This image illustrates fluorescence resonance energy transfer works. With FRET, the illuminated yellow molecules come together, signaling that they are transferring energy in the living cell. Credit: Courtesy of Michael Davidson, National High Magnetic Laboratory

Now that the genome (DNA) of humans and many other organisms have been sequenced, biologists are turning their attention to discovering how the many thousands of structural and control genes -- the “worker bees” of living cells that can turn genes on and off -- function.


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