Breeding and Building Molecules to Spy on Cells and Tumors

Roger Tsien

doi:10.1364/BIOMED.2010.BTuA1

Biomedical Optics and 3-D Imaging
OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2010),
paper BTuA1
•https://doi.org/10.1364/BIOMED.2010.BTuA1

Breeding and Building Molecules to Spy on Cells and Tumors

Roger Tsien

Biomedical Optics 2010

Miami, Florida United States
11–14 April 2010
ISBN: 978-1-55752-887-2

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BIOMED Tuesday Plenary (BTuA)

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Abstract

New flavoproteins photogenerate singlet oxygen, enabling genetically encoded correlative light and electron microscopy. Synthetic peptides provide an amplifying mechanism for targeting fluorophores, MRI contrast agents, and drugs to sites of protease activity (e.g. tumors) in vivo.

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