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Inside an institutional-gray scientific laboratory, it can be startling to find brilliant, paintlike fluorescent colors. But in one San Diego lab, bacterial colonies in bright hues of green, blue, magenta, yellow, and orange dot agar plates and linger in discarded microcentrifuge tubes. This eccentric biological palette is the work of HHMI investigator Roger Y. Tsien, and his "studio" is a pharmacology lab at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). continued...
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Roger Tsien created dyes to track the movement of calcium within live cells.
Photo by Joe Toreno
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Reprinted from the HHMI Bulletin, Summer 2004, pages 22-26.
©2004 Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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