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GLOWING ANIMALS: Pictures of Beasts Shining for Science
How does it glow?
Cyan, red, and yellow fluorescent proteins, injected into DNA in embryos (2007)
What can we learn?
A Harvard team working with mice invented the "brainbow." When three different colors of fluorescent protein--cyan, red, and yellow--were introduced into a mouse embryo, the individual neurons of the mouse's brain became one of 90 different colors.
In addition to looking fantastic, the psychedelic mouse minds will likely lend insight into how brains work.
(Read more about brainbow.)
—Photograph courtesy Livet, et al
GLOWING ANIMALS: Pictures of Beasts Shining for Science (30 May 2009)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/photogalleries/glowing-animal-pictures/photo6.html
http://snipurl.com/j4hs1
How does it glow?Cyan, red, and yellow fluorescent proteins, injected into DNA in embryos (2007)
What can we learn?
A Harvard team working with mice invented the "brainbow." When three different colors of fluorescent protein--cyan, red, and yellow--were introduced into a mouse embryo, the individual neurons of the mouse's brain became one of 90 different colors.
In addition to looking fantastic, the psychedelic mouse minds will likely lend insight into how brains work.
(Read more about brainbow.)
—Photograph courtesy Livet, et al
GLOWING ANIMALS: Pictures of Beasts Shining for Science (30 May 2009)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/photogalleries/glowing-animal-pictures/photo6.html
http://snipurl.com/j4hs1
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