{"id":690189,"date":"2021-05-14T10:49:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T14:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=690189"},"modified":"2021-05-14T10:49:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T14:49:07","slug":"scientists-reveal-unprecedentedly-versatile-new-dna-staining-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=690189","title":{"rendered":"Scientists reveal unprecedentedly versatile new DNA staining probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of scientists at Nagoya University, Japan, have developed an incredibly versatile DNA fluorescent dye, named &#8216;Kakshine&#8217; after a former NU student of its members, Dr. Kakishi Uno, but it also means to make the nucleus shine brightly, since the nucleus is pronounced &#8216;Kaku&#8217; in Japanese. Dr. Uno, with Dr. Yoshikatsu Sato and Nagisa Sugimoto, the other two members of the research team at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), succeeded in developing a DNA binding fluorescent dye with the pyrido cyanine backbone, which satisfied the three principal qualities required of such a dye\u2014that it have high selectivity for DNA, ability to use visible light with limited phototoxicity, and be applicable to a wide range of organisms\u2014in a way that no previous dye has been able to.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-05-scientists-reveal-unprecedentedly-versatile-dna.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Scientists reveal unprecedentedly versatile new DNA staining probe<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of scientists at Nagoya University, Japan, have developed an incredibly versatile DNA fluorescent dye, named &#8216;Kakshine&#8217; after a former NU student of its members, Dr. Kakishi Uno, but&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=690189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}