But the message receiver can turn on the key genes and make the colors light up by pressing
the nitrocellulose paper into an agar plate containing a chemical trigger that activates expression of the fluorescent proteins.
To create the test strips, the researchers first coated
nitrocellulose paper with antibodies that can capture the peptides.
Not exact matches
To «print» the message, the researchers transferred the bacteria onto a plate containing agar, a bacterial growth medium, into which they pressed a sheet of
nitrocellulose «
paper» that immobilizes the bacteria.