Aglow in the Dark. The Revolutionary Science of Biofluorescence
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Author(s): V. Pieribone and D. Gruber
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674019210
Format: hardback
263pp
Price: £15.95, $24.95, €21.20
Review Date: 22 February 2006
Review: In the early 1960s scientists found that it was a green fluorescent protein that made a certain jellyfish glow. This protein was to revolutionize molecular biology, transforming the study of everything from the AIDS virus to the working of the brain. Here the authors narrate, in a very readable way, the fascinating journey of the scientists and their ideas that have taken bioluminescence from a descriptive discipline to such a rich fount of invention.