Osaka, Japan – Imaging live cells with fluorescent proteins has long been a crucial technique for understanding cellular behavior. While bioluminescent proteins offer several advantages over ...

So what's happening inside the firefly's light cells? What's the secret to its glow? In the 19th century, French pharmacologist Raphaël Dubois, working with bioluminescent clams, discovered that ...

Quantum sensors made from a glowing protein can be produced by living cells and could be used to much more accurately measure tiny changes in the body. This could one day help with early disease ...