Lighting up life: Rice scientists develop glowing sensors to track cellular changes as they happen (IMAGE)

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Lighting up life: Rice scientists develop glowing sensors to track cellular changes as they happen

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Researchers at Rice University have engineered living cells to use a 21st amino acid that illuminates protein changes in real time, providing a new method for observing changes within cells.

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Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University

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