Rice Lab Turns Fluorescent Tags Into Cancer Killers
June 12, 2020
June 12, 2020
HOUSTON, Texas, June 12 -- Rice University issued the following news release:
A Rice University lab's project to make better fluorescent tags has turned into a method to kill tumors.
Switching one atom in the tag does the trick.
Rice chemist Han Xiao and his colleagues found that replacing a single oxygen atom with a sulfur atom in a common fluorophore turns it into a photosensitizing molecule. When exposed to light, the molecule generated reactive oxygen s . . .
A Rice University lab's project to make better fluorescent tags has turned into a method to kill tumors.
Switching one atom in the tag does the trick.
Rice chemist Han Xiao and his colleagues found that replacing a single oxygen atom with a sulfur atom in a common fluorophore turns it into a photosensitizing molecule. When exposed to light, the molecule generated reactive oxygen s . . .