It's like the ideal reality TV show for biologists:For the first time,X.Sunney Xie and colleagues at Harvard University have watched the birth of individual protein molecules in real time inside single,living cells.According to Xie,the ability to monitor the generation of lone protein molecules in live cells has "opened up ways of probing gene expression,the fundamental processes in biology,in a quantitative way at the single-molecule level."
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