OPINION

Bioluminescent imaging: new opportunities

About authors

1 Biomolecular Chemistry Department, Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

2 Laboratory of Natural Compounds Chemistry, Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow

Correspondence should be addressed: Aleksandr S. Shcheglov
Miklukho-Maklaya, 16/10, Moscow, 117997; ur.liam@trakuj

About paper

Funding: the study was funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation under the Federal Targeted Programme for Research and Development in Priority Areas of Development of the Russian Scientific and Technological Complex for 2014-2020, Agreement # 14.613.21.0062, project identifier RFMEFI61317X0062.

Received: 2018-11-02 Accepted: 2018-11-19 Published online: 2018-12-04
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