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Light up your lab with fluorescent protein LEDs

November 12, 2019

It’s that time of year, so the Single Molecule Microbiology lab (Zach Hensel, Sara Costa and Cleusia Manuel) got together and designed and 3d-printed holiday lights based on the x-ray structure of the GFP variant mTurquoise2.

String of GFP lights

If you want to do the same for your own lab, check out our design and design tips at our github repository. For a more practical application of 3d printing, you’ll also find new designs that summer student Joana Valério made for a linear stage for positioning our sCMOS camera at this repository.

String of GFP lights


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