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A newly engineered infrared fluorescent protein will allow microscopists to peer more deeply into living animals.

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Figure 1: Absorption and scattering lengths are longer for near-infrared compared with visible light.

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  1. Jérôme Lecoq and Mark J. Schnitzer are at the James H. Clark Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA,

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  2. Mark J. Schnitzer is at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the CNC Program, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.,

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Lecoq, J., Schnitzer, M. An infrared fluorescent protein for deeper imaging. Nat Biotechnol 29, 715–716 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.1941

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