GLOWING ANIMALS: Pictures of Beasts Shining for Science


	GLOWING ANIMALS: Pictures of Beasts Shining for Science
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5-14-2009 8:44 PM
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5-15-2009 7:27 PM
kkcapricorn
Very pretty but leave the animals alone. I bet they could get human volunteers.
5-16-2009 3:54 AM
withflyingcolors
I completely agree.
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																<A class="style4" href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/email2friend.pl"><IMG width="17" height="15" border="0" align="top" class="tool" src="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/images/global2004/email.gif" />Email to a Friend </A></DIV></TD></TR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/photogalleries/glowing-animal-pictures/photo12.html">The discovery of green fluorescent protein by Shimomura in 1956 was the
result of crushing countless jellyfish. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/photogalleries/glowing-animal-pictures/photo12.html">After publishing his findings in 1962, Shimomura studied GFP in detail
and realized that no extra fuel was needed to make it glow--other
glowing substances need chemical additives to shine. GFP, by
contrast, just needed to be exposed to ultraviolet light.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/photogalleries/glowing-animal-pictures/photo12.html">Chalfie, the third of the GFP Nobel winners, realized the maintenance-free
protein could be used to literally watch how creatures work. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/photogalleries/glowing-animal-pictures/photo12.html">He proved
with the intestinal bacterium <I>E. coli </I>that GFP alone--with no
fuel--glowed, and promptly started putting it into roundworms.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E32164CC-32CB-4DF1-8754-3DBE101A9138/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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