Professors Shigehiro Yamaguchi, Tetsuya Higashiyama, Vice Director of ITbM, and their research groups have developed a fluorescent dye C-Naphox, which is now commercially available from TCI (currently only available in Japan).

This new photostable fluorescent dye can be used for super resolution microscopy and could serve as a powerful tool to visualize biological events and structural details in living cells at real-time for prolonged recording periods.

Molecular structure of C-Naphox

Links:

• TCI "C-Naphox-TEG (in Japanese)"
• Press Release