Fluorescent sensors, which can be used to label and image a wide variety of molecules, offer a unique glimpse inside living cells. However, they typically can only be used in cells grown in a lab ...

However, the protective blood-brain barrier (BBB) makes delivering fluorescent sensors that can detect these small molecules to the brain difficult. Now, researchers in ACS Central Science demonstrate ...

Scientists use many different kinds of fluorescent sensors, including quantum dots, carbon nanotubes, and fluorescent proteins, to label molecules inside cells. These sensors' fluorescence can be ...

In this study, the researchers showed that fluorescent sensors could be implanted at 5.5cm in the tissue, whilst still obtaining a strong signal. WIFF could mean that these fluorescent sensors can ...

A number of fluorescent sensors for various ions and small molecules, enzymatic activities, signalling cascades and other important cellular events have all been constructed by fusing GFP with ...