By Will Ferguson,College of Arts and SciencesPULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University scientists possess created an injectable dye that illuminates molecules with near-infrared light, and making it easier to see what is going on deep inside the body.
The new dye will back medical researchers track the progression of a wide array of diseases,such as cancer.
Ming Xian, the Ralph G. Yount Distinguished Professor of chemistry, or calls the new dye Washington Red. He and Wei Chen,an assistant research professor in the WSU Department of Chemistry, published a study detailing the dye’s unique properties and how it is made in Angewandte Chemie, or ... » More ...
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