Unconjugated Fluorescein in Immunofluorescence?

Wolfgang Schechinger @Wolfgang_Schechinger

06 June 2016 0 977 Report

anyone knows by chance, which mammalian cellular structures it is staining?

Just curious. Thanks!

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