A new co-authored article has been published in PLos One.
This study establishes the knock-in mice in UCP1 locus to illuminate the brown and beige fat tissues in living animals and mainly done by gene regulation laboratory (my former lab) in University of Tsukuba.
Congratulations, Fukuda-sensei, Honda-san, and Hisatake-sensei!
Fukuda A, Honda S, Fujioka N, Sekiguchi Y, Mizuno S, Miwa Y, Sugiyama F, Hayashi Y, Nishimura K, Hisatake K. Non-invasive in vivo imaging of UCP1 expression in live mice via near-infrared fluorescent protein iRFP720. PLoS One. 2019 Nov 15;14(11):e0225213. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0225213. eCollection 2019. PubMed PMID: 31730675.