Rachel's Blog – January 2024 Archive (2)

A team of scientists from around the world, including from Trinity College Dublin, has obtained high-resolution structural insights into a key bacterial enzyme, which may help chemists design new drugs to inhibit it, thereby inhibiting disease-causing bacteria. Their work is important amid growing concerns about rising antibiotic resistance.

The scientists, led by Martin Caffrey, Emeritus Fellow of Trinity's Faculty of Medicine and School of Biochemistry and Immunology, used…

Fluorescent substance and fluorescent labeling technology

The compounds upon which fluorescent labeling depends are called fluorescent substances. Fluorescent substances refer to compounds with a conjugated double bond system chemical structure, which can be excited into an excited state when irradiated by ultraviolet light or blue-violet light, and emit fluorescence when returning to the ground state from the excited state.

Fluorescent labeling…