Live visualization of chromatin dynamics with fluorescent TALEs

Miyanari Y., Ziegler-Birling C., Torres-Padilla M.E.Nature structural & molecular biology, 2013

The authors of these two Nature publications show that laminin can be coated directly on glass, which many other substrates and proteins can not. This enables the growth of pluripotent stem cells as monolayers even on glass, which is especially suitable for live imaging.