A few hours after sunset one night in July of 2016, a Ph.D. student walked into a New Jersey hotel carrying a bouquet of butterfly nets. The travelers who usually occupy the place looked up from their ...

A unique new probe based on luciferase, the enzyme that gives fireflies their glow, enables researchers to monitor hydrogen peroxide levels in mice and thereby track the progression of infectious ...

Think of the firefly abdomen like a black box of bioluminescence. For around 60 years, scientists have known what basic ingredients go into the box—things like oxygen, calcium, magnesium, and a ...

A Curtin University-led research team has found a way to synthetically create a firefly's glow that could have positive impacts on the access to medical light-imaging tools used to detect tumors and ...

Allison Racela (poster presenter), D. Kohrt, D.M. Fontaine, B.P. Huta, and B.R. Branchini "Luciferases and Luciferin Analogs with Potential for in vivo Imaging ...

A luminescence reaction modeled on fireflies can detect contamination with organophosphates with high sensitivity, ease, and low cost. At the center of this technology is a new enzymatic method for ...

Could the gentle firefly turn out to be a potent weapon against cancer? In a new study, researchers from London inserted the firefly gene that activates bioluminescent light into modified cancer cells ...

Three young boys run into the darkened exhibit space. They stop in their tracks in the middle of the hall and stare at the glowing displays and video screens of strange luminescent creatures looming ...

Dr. Edmund Newton Harvey was once reported eaten by cannibals near the Torres Strait south of New Guinea, but the U. S. Department of State later announced that the report was exaggerated. Having done ...

The most sensitive and reliable technique for measuring ATP in isolated living cells and in whole animals is based on the bioluminescent luciferin–luciferase reaction. Luciferase, an enzyme that ...