Bioluminescent Sensor Causes Brain Cells to Glow in the Dark
Thursday, October 27, 2016 - 17:01
in Biology & Nature
A new kind of bioluminescent sensor causes individual brain cells to imitate fireflies and glow in the dark. The probe, which was developed by a team of Vanderbilt scientists, is a genetically modified form of luciferase, the enzyme that a number of other species including fireflies use to produce light. It is described in a paper published in the journal Nature Communications on Oct.