Aglow in the dark : the revolutionary science of biofluorescence : Pieribone, Vincent : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive (original) (raw)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-249)

Living light -- Fireflies of the sea -- From the fires of Nagasaki -- The secret of the jellyfish's flicker -- The light at the end of the rainbow -- Illuminating the cell -- Glow worms -- Fluorescent spies -- A rosy dawn -- Shimmering reefs -- Lighting up the brain -- Glowing thoughts

Traces the history of green fluorescent protein from its discovery in the early 1960s to its current uses in the twenty-first century, and explores how the compound has changed the field of molecular biology

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