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Production and Targeting of Monovalent Quantum Dots
Published on: October 23, 2014
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Sperm DNA-mediated reduction of nonspecific fluorescence during cellular imaging with quantum dots
Jonghwan Lee1,2, Kyung-Ju Choi3, Youngsok Choi4
1Institute for Bio-Medical Convergence, College of Medicine, Catholic Kwandong University, Gangneung-si, Gangwon-do, 270-701, Republic of Korea. kimsoonhag@empal.com.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|June 23, 2015
Abstract:
Salmon sperm DNA was used as a blocking agent to reduce background fluorescence signals from gelatin-coated cell culture dishes.
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