How glow-in-the-dark jellyfish revolutionised plant biology
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 05:00
in Biology & Nature
What happens inside plant cells? How can we see proteins in living cells that aren't even visible with a microscope? This was a problem in plant cell biology until the discovery of a fluorescent jellyfish and the isolation of the protein responsible for its green glow. Over the past half a century since the discovery of green fluorescent protein (GFP) biologists have gained the tools necessary to illuminate the microscopic world inside of a living cell.