Oliver, CBlake, DFerguson, SBovin, NHenry, S2011-09-282011-09-282010-062010-06Federation of European Biochemical Societies(FEBS) Journal, Special Issue: Abstracts of the 35th FEBS Congress, Gothenburg, Sweden, vol.277(Suppl. 1), pp.50 - 511742-464X (print) 1742-4658 (online)https://hdl.handle.net/10292/2142The ability to modify a population of blood cells with both an antigen of interest and an identification-recovery label, infuse them into the circulation of an animal, and then visualize or recover a sample of the infused cells some hours-days later for analysis, is now possible through the use of FSL (function-spacer-lipid) constructs. FSL constructs are analogous in structure to a flower and consist of three components; a functional head group (like the flower head), a pacer (like a stalk) and a diacylipid tail (the anchoring roots). All FSLs are biocompatible and allow users to introduce novel functional moieties to the membrane surface of living cells.Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons. All rights reserved. Authors retain the right to place his/her pre-publication version of the work on a personal website or institutional repository. This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in (please see citation) as it is not a copy of this record. An electronic version of this article can be found online at: (Please see Publisher’s Version)Conference ContributionOpenAccess10.1111/j.1742-4658.2010.07680.x