Water is largely tasteless to humans. But to the microbial world, it is anything but. Bacteria that live in contaminated ...

Signatories to the Minamata Convention on Mercury have agreed to ban the manufacture, import and export of straight tube ...

Even though the transition to LED lighting is well under way, there are lots of TV stations that still depend on studio fluorescent lights. I know this, in part, because I helped put them up with ...

Tumour cells can be stably transfected with fluorescent proteins. Tumours and metastases that express fluorescent proteins can be visualized non-invasively in intact animals. Transgenic mice can ...

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 ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Kaede group members represent excellent photoactivatable markers for labelling organelles and cells. Although most of these PAFPs ...

It has been over 60 years since Osamu Shimomura et al. discovered Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) 1. Since then, the color palette for fluorescent proteins has been extended to span blue through to ...

A fluorescent light headache is a type of headache triggered by fluorescent lights. This may also be a symptom of photophobia, a condition that describes sensitivity to light. Fluorescent lights are ...

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 ...

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 ...