Researchers transform fluorescent proteins into a scaffold for manipulating genes

Friday, August 16, 2013 - 05:30 in Biology & Nature

(Phys.org) —Jonathan Tang had a problem. A graduate student studying neural circuitry in the retina, he wanted to do more than identify fluorescent cells that send signals to the brain. He sought to understand how these specialized cells called bipolar neurons develop and function in the eye's retina. More than "Here they are," he hoped to say, "Here's what they do."

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