A message from the virus was detected by a peptide nucleic acid probe that contains thiazole orange as a fluorescent base surrogate (see picture). The high specificity and biostability of the probes lead to significant improvements to the signal-to-background ratio in imaging the mRNA from the influenza H1N1 virus in living infected cells.
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