I chose a napa cabbage with leaves of a more garish fluorescent pink and put it in my shopping basket.Green onions, potatoes, ...

Thanks to a recent study by researchers at IOCB Prague, it is now possible to monitor processes in living cells more effectively than before, including responses to drugs and changes in cellular ...

Recently, several mammals have been reported to "glow" under ultraviolet (UV) light, including our beloved platypus. But no one knew how common it was among mammals until now. We also examined the ...

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After the discovery of green fluorescent protein (GFP) in 1961, fluorescent proteins have been fused to various proteins and enzymes in order to visualize them. Fluorescent proteins ushered a new era ...

Rice's Han Xiao, Stanford's Zhen Cheng and collaborators have developed a new tool for noninvasive brain imaging that can help illuminate hard-to-access structures and processes. Their small-molecule ...

Cyan fluorescent protein variants 1 derived from Aequorea victoria GFP are widely applied for localization and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based interaction studies 2,3. Cerulean and ...

Not all CFLs are created equal. Find out how to save the most energy with CFLs and how to get a bulb with better light quality. Compact fluorescent light bulbs save consumers money — and their use can ...

Advances in fluorescence microscopy and the engi-neering of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) from Aequorea victoria into mutants with improved properties and altered colours have provided the basic ...