Scientists have developed a probe for monitoring hydrogen peroxide levels in mice that enables them to track the progression of cancerous tumors or infectious diseases without harming the animals or ...

A few hours after sunset one night in July of 2016, a Ph.D. student walked into a New Jersey hotel carrying a bouquet of butterfly nets. The travelers who usually occupy the place looked up from their ...

Lighting up the back yard on early summer evenings, fireflies seem so gentle, so benign. But researchers in London have succeeded in turning firefly genes into killers – illuminating cancerlike cells, ...

Luciferin is the basic substrate of bioluminescent assays. Based on a simple reaction where ATP fuels luciferase catalysis of firefly (beetle) luciferin to produce light, bioluminescence has broad ...

Researchers have uncovered exactly how the firefly lights up - and the stunning structure they use to do it. This 'bioluminescence' is an intriguing phenomenon that has many potential applications, ...

Could the gentle firefly turn out to be a potent weapon against cancer? In a new study, researchers from London inserted the firefly gene that activates bioluminescent light into modified cancer cells ...

A unique new probe based on luciferase, the enzyme that gives fireflies their glow, enables researchers to monitor hydrogen peroxide levels in mice and thereby track the progression of infectious ...