Eerie fluorescent blue patches of water glimmering off Hong Kong’s seashore are magnificent, disturbing and potentially toxic, marine biologists say. The glow is an indicator of a harmful algal ...

Deep below Earth's surface, rock and mineral formations lay hidden with a secret brilliance. Under a black light, the ...

“Therefore,” says Shu, “they are potential candidates for engineering blue- or red-shifted infrared fluorescent proteins, which then may be used for multicolor imaging and as FRET donors or ...

Far-red fluorescent proteins are particularly promising ... some investigators have turned their attention back to the blue region of the visible spectrum and developed several new hues that ...

Fluorescent dyes are tools used throughout biotechnology and ... A second, related assay is the Bradford assay, which relies on the reaction between acidified Coomassie blue to proteins to undergo a ...