An international research group including Dr. Akira Kitamura, a lecturer at Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, and Professor Jerker Widengren, Department of Applied Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, has established a novel method to identify the folding states of RNA guanine quadruplexes (G-quadruplex) in live cells using the rate of fluorescence blinking and its ratio change of cyanine fluorophores.
For details, please refer to the press release on the Hokkaido University website. (in Japanese)