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A remarkably suitable fluorescent tag incorporated into lipids through some clever chemistry produces fluorescent lipids that are excellent mimics of their native counterparts.

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Figure 1: Fluorescent analogs of sphingomyelin.

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    Gerrit van Meer & Rob M J Liskamp

  2. Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Gerrit van Meer & Rob M J Liskamp

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van Meer, G., Liskamp, R. Brilliant lipids. Nat Methods 2, 14–15 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0105-14

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