Priyom Bose holds a PhD in plant biology and biotechnology from the University of Madras, India. She is an experienced academic researcher and science writer. Priyom has co-authored several original ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about the world of biology. The discovery of bioluminescent sand on a San Diego beach just a few days ago has reignited public ...

While bioluminescent proteins offer several advantages over fluorescent proteins, the limited availability of color variants has made it difficult to observe multiple targets simultaneously.

Bioluminescence is widely used for in vivo imaging of nude mice. By conjugating luciferase protein to quantum dots, bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) turns these useful fluorophores ...