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Building on this knowledge, the Ries group has engineered cell lines with nuclear pores labelled by different fluorescent proteins and dyes to act as three-dimensional \u2018molecular rulers\u2019. These can be used to precisely calibrate and optimize their microscopes. In this image, green fluorescent protein (GFP) labels the nuclear pore protein Nup96, and magenta shows a dye known as DiD, which highlights the membrane. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41592-019-0574-9\">This research showed how nuclear pores offer versatile reference standards<\/a> that are widely shared with the research community in order to improve what researchers can learn from super-resolution microscopy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Credit: Jervis Thevathasan &amp; Markus Mund\/EMBL<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have a stunning picture of your science, your lab or your site, you can submit it&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:mathias.jaeger@embl.de\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nucleus of this cell fluoresces in bright green thanks to GFP-labelled nucleoporin proteins. 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