Beautiful Bugs in Blue: The Making of Luminous Bacteria

Thursday, March 5, 2009 - 16:56 in Biology & Nature

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Michigan Technological University researchers led by Associate Professor of Chemistry Haiying Liu has discovered how to make a strain of E. coli glow under fluorescent light. The technique could eventually be used to track down all sorts of pathogens and even help in the fight against breast cancer.

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