A Light Trail of Cancer Metastases
June 29, 2021 | Terry Sharrer
A Stanford scientist has “created a system that allowed GFP [green fluorescent protein] on one cell’s surface to be transferred to a recipient cell upon interaction. The team named the result GFP-based Touching Nexus (G-baToN). One cell bears the label tethered to its surface, and when it interacts with another cell, that marker is passed on to engineered receptors for that marker on the recipient, not only indicating that the cells interacted, but also where contact was made.” MORE
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