Mystery Of Glowing Antibody Solved By Scripps Research Scientists

Now, a group of Scripps Research scientists have shown that EP2-19G2, one of a panel of fluorescent monoclonal antibodies that were first reported in 2000, produces its distinctive bright blue glow through a rare and highly complex recombination of electrical charge.This charge recombination involves an electron hole - the gap left by the electron as it is transferred from one molecule to the other.

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Filed under: Biology on March 3rd, 2008