When you look up at the blue sky, where are the stars that you see at night? They’re there but we can’t see them. A firefly flitting across a field is invisible to us during the day, but at night we ...

Researchers at Scotland's University of St. Andrews have demonstrated the world's first polariton laser based on lab-grown, fluorescent jellyfish proteins -- which could help trigger major advances in ...

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Jellyfish ruin more than your tropical beach vacation. They clog intake pipes at nuclear power stations, capsize fishing boats by weighing down nets, and wage guerrilla warfare on the ecosystem. But ...

Made up of a four-letter DNA code*, genes are the 'recipes' cells use to make molecules such as proteins, which are the building blocks of life. Changes in a gene can affect the characteristics of an ...

Scientists that study molecules in cells use a common tool to spotlight the proteins they are interested in - they mark stuff in the cell with tags that light up when illuminated by fluorescent ...

Scientists have found that the luminous part of a jellyfish can be helpful in the search for new heart disease treatments. A team from the Technical University of Munich extracted a fluorescent ...

Did you ever think of jellyfish or a salamander as fluorescent? That is actually the case. Both animals have proteins in their bodies that enables them to light up. "We developed a new method to ...

Under normal light, a litter of eight white rabbits born in an Istanbul university last week look like any other rabbits. But in a darkroom, two of those rabbits glow a fluorescent green. A Turkish ...

Made up of a four-letter DNA code, genes are the 'recipes' cells use to make molecules such as proteins, which are the building blocks of life. Changes in a gene can affect the characteristics of an ...