Scientists engineered this three-month-old frog to make a new fluorescent protein in its muscle tissues.
Credit: Reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: nature methods, copyright 2007
New publications, experiments and breakthroughs in biotechnology--and what they mean.
Glowing from Within
A new fluorescent marker illuminates tissue deep within living animals
SOURCE: "Bright Far-Red Fluorescent Protein for Whole-Body Imaging"
Dmitriy Chudakov et al.
Nature Methods 4: 741-746
RESULTS: Using genetic-engineering techniques, scientists have altered a red protein found in sea anemones to create a fluorescent marker that can be used to study living tissue deep in the body.
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