Definition of "fluorophores" [fluorophores]

• Plural form of fluorophore. (noun)

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• ""To observe the molecule, we are decorating it with fluorescent markers, called fluorophores, that make it glow.""
• ""To observe molecules, we attach reporter molecules called fluorophores that can be directly measured at the single-molecule scale."
• "The strobe mode overcomes photophysical damage to the polymerase inflicted by excited fluorophores that occasionally “go into a bad state,” as Martin puts it."