Living cells as test tubes

Science

Volumn 312, Issue 5771, 2006, Pages 228-230

  Xie, X Sunney ^a   Yu, Ji ^a   Yang, Wei Yuan ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LIPIDS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PROTEINS; RAMAN SCATTERING;

LIPID METABOLISM; QUANTITATIVE PROBING; SINGLE-MOLECULE SENSITIVITY; TEST TUBES;

CELLS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; PROTEIN; RNA;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; CHEMICAL REACTION; GENE EXPRESSION; LIPID; METABOLISM; METABOLITE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY; ANTI STOKES RAMAN SCATTERING MICROSCOPY; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSPORT; CHEMICAL REACTION; GENE EXPRESSION; LIPID METABOLISM; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CELLS; FATTY ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION; LIPID METABOLISM; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MOLECULAR PROBE TECHNIQUES; PROTEINS; QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 33645825831     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1127566     Document Type: Review

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