{"id":242561,"date":"2026-08-12T02:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/beyond-color-fluorescence-lifetime-imaging-distinguishes-multiple-proteins-in-living-plant-cells"},"modified":"2026-08-12T02:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:08:08","slug":"beyond-color-fluorescence-lifetime-imaging-distinguishes-multiple-proteins-in-living-plant-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/beyond-color-fluorescence-lifetime-imaging-distinguishes-multiple-proteins-in-living-plant-cells","title":{"rendered":"Beyond color: Fluorescence lifetime imaging distinguishes multiple proteins in living plant cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/beyond-color-fluorescence-lifetime-imaging-distinguishes-multiple-proteins-in-living-plant-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fluorescent protein imaging is an indispensable tool in life science research, enabling visualization of protein movement and localization, gene expression, signaling pathways, protein-protein interactions and more. For simultaneous analysis of multiple proteins (i.e., multiplex imaging), a variety of fluorescent proteins that emit different colors (blue, green, yellow and red) have been developed.<\/p>\n<p>However, the number of colors that can be distinguished simultaneously is limited, making it difficult to observe and distinguish multiple fluorescent proteins that emit similar colors. Now, researchers from WPI-ITbM at Nagoya University have demonstrated that overlapping colored fluorescent proteins can be distinguished within living plant cells using fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM).<\/p>\n<p>This research was published in <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/plphys\/article\/doi\/10.1093\/plphys\/kiag475\/8747657\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Plant Physiology<\/i><\/a> on July 30, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fluorescent protein imaging is an indispensable tool in life science research, enabling visualization of protein movement and localization, gene expression, signaling pathways, protein-protein interactions and more. For simultaneous analysis of multiple proteins (i.e., multiplex imaging), a variety of fluorescent proteins that emit different colors (blue, green, yellow and red) have been developed. However, the number [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}