Using bespoke fluorescence microscopy to study the soft condensed matter of living cells at the single molecule level

Journal article

The use of bespoke imaging tools and analysis can offer significant insight into the living counterpart of soft condensed matter. The soft matter of biological systems consists of molecular building blocks, a staple of which is protein. Protein molecules, so small that 1 billion would fit on the full-stop at the end of this sentence, carry out most of the vital activities in living cells. Many of these processes require the assembly of multiple proteins into remarkable biological machines. Ob...

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Authors: Xue, Q; Harriman, O; Leake, M

• Journal: Journal of Physics: Conference Series
• Volume: 286
• Issue: 1
• Publication date: 2011-01-01
• DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/286/1/012001
• EISSN: 1742-6596
• ISSN: 1742-6588
• Language: English