New Technique Tracks Individual Protein Movement on Live Cells (IMAGE)

Biophysical Society

New Technique Tracks Individual Protein Movement on Live Cells

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Interferometric Scattering Microscopy (iSCAT) enables fast 3D tracking of individual gold nanoparticle-labelled proteins upon the dynamic terrain of the live cell membrane.

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Drawing depicting the landscape of a cell surface with a gold nanoparticle tracing courtesy of Richard Taylor.

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