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Xin Zhou1, Sohum Mehta1, Jin Zhang1

  • 1Department of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.

Trends in Biochemical Sciences
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PubMed

Keywords:
bioluminescencecompartmentalizationin vivo imaginglive-cell imagingspatiotemporal regulationsuper-resolution

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