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unusual facts about fluorescent



Behavioral neuroscience

Synapto-pHluorin is a technique that relies on a fusion protein that combines a synaptic vesicle membrane protein and a pH sensitive fluorescent protein.

Beige Brigade

Brigadiers and those who flatter them in imitation are now commonly seen sporting the very short shorts known as "Stubbies" and other items such as sweat bands, fluorescent zinc sunblock, and aviator sunglasses that were once staples of New Zealand summer menswear.

Chaotic Wrestling

Writing for The Boston Phoenix, columnist Sean Bartlett commented on the "baroque characters" and wrestlers wearing "vinyl boots and fluorescent hot pants".

Chlorotoxin

CTX: Cy5.5 bioconjugate which is a combination of chlorotoxin and a fluorescent material named, Cy5.5 has been recently used by Researchers at Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to demarcate cancer cells from the surrounding normal cells.

Coaching stock of Ireland

Two reflective Fluorescent Red 3M Scotchcal 12 inch square panels were applied at each body end.

Hoechst

Hoechst stain, one of a family of fluorescent DNA-binding compounds.

Indoor bonsai

Fluorescent lighting (preferably with bulbs radiating growth-friendly spectra) and light-emitting diode lighting can give sufficient light to support a significant number of indoor bonsai species.

Japanese rice fish

They have been genetically modified to secrete various human hormones, express promoter sequences from other fish, and to make antimicrobial proteins and a protein that makes the medaka glow fluorescent green.

Matthew Hayden

Prior to using a Mongoose, Hayden used a Gray-Nicolls bat with a fluorescent pink grip, to highlight and support research into a cure for breast cancer.

Microfluorimetry

Fluorometer, for a fuller description of the devices for fluorescent measurement.

Northern Ireland Virtual Tissue Archive

Housed within Queen's University's Bioimaging Core Technology Unit, uses an Aperio CS system and a Hamamatsu system with fluorescent scanning capability.

Nucleolus

The nucleolus ultrastructure can be visualized through an electron microscope, while the organization and dynamics can be studied through fluorescent protein tagging and fluorescent recovery after photobleaching (FRAP).

Operation Dew

Dew II involved the release of fluorescent particles (zinc cadmium sulfide) and plant spores (Lycopodium) from an aircraft.

Oxygen radical absorbance capacity

The assay measures the oxidative degradation of the fluorescent molecule (either beta-phycoerythrin or fluorescein) after being mixed with free radical generators such as azo-initiator compounds.

Phthalaldehyde

The method is spectrometric (fluorescent emission at 436-475 nm (max 455 nm) with excitation at 330-390nm (max. 340 nm)).

Protein-fragment complementation assay

When fluorescent proteins are reconstituted the PCA is called Bimolecular fluorescence complementation assay.

Red adaptation goggles

Red adaptation goggles were first invented by Wilhelm Trendelenburg in 1916 for early radiologists to use to adapt their eyes to view the light produced by fluorescent screens during fluoroscopic procedures.

Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals

Collections include petrified wood, various fossils, fluorescent minerals, meteorites, zeolites, and a variety of other minerals.

Triboluminescence

Wint-O-Green Life Savers work especially well for creating such sparks, because wintergreen oil (methyl salicylate) is fluorescent and converts ultraviolet light into blue light.

Vertico SMI

The GFP gene has been introduced and expressed in many procaryotic and eucaryotic cells and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008 was awarded to Martin Chalfie, Osamu Shimomura, and Roger Y. Tsien for their discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein.

Visual hierarchy

Tennis balls are fluorescent green for the perceptual ease of players, match officials, and spectators.

VLC

Visible light communication, a communications medium using fluorescent bulbs or LEDs

Vossloh

In 1946 production of holders for fluorescent tubes was allowed to take place at a plant in Lüdenscheid, by 1962 an additional plant for lighting products had opened in Selm and the Vossloh works employed 1300 people, with 500 more employed in subsidiaries.

Xmap

xMAP (Multi-Analyte Profiling) technology is a multiplex assay format, patented by Luminex Corporation, using a panel of microspheres internally doped with two fluorescent dyes to produce up to 100 different bead identities that can be used in various applications - from HLA genotyping by oligonucleotide probe hybridization to serological profiling e.g. antibody diversity profiling, antibody identification or histocompatibility screen etc

Young Voices on Climate Change

The film Girl Scouts follows a Girl Scout troop in Northern California distributing 5000 compact fluorescent light bulbs in collaboration with the Sierra Club.

Zumtobel Group

It also manufactured lamps at factories in Leicester (mostly auto and high and low pressure discharge), Merthyr Tydfil (incandescent) and Enfield (fluorescent), which were sold to GE Lighting in the early 1990s.


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