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Coral shows its colors


Coral shows its colors
New fluorescing dye molecules, including one that glows red, can be used to track the activity of proteins in living cells. The green fluorescent protein (GFP) found in jellyfish enables researchers to study proteins in a variety of cells. It was previously thought that only light-producing organisms had GFP-like proteins. But a biologist in Moscow suspected that the ability to generate light might have evolved from organisms that transform light into different wavelengths, like fluorescing corals. Scientists have applied for a patent on the proteins.
1 OCTOBER 1999, P. 39
Science
1 OCTOBER 1999, P. 39

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