#bioluminescence
Nature to illuminate research
Here you can see fireflies, a type of beetle that glows.
Bioluminescence is the production and emission of light from enzymes called luciferases. In nature, many organisms such as jellyfish and fireflies ‘glow’ using these enzymes.
In scientific research, bioluminescent proteins are used to monitor changes to cells.
In the bottom images around 7000 bacterial colonies have been printed on an agar plate.The bacteria have been genetically engineered to display the bioluminescent enzyme from the firefly Photinus pyralis.
The images were taken with a sensitive camera which can detect the light output from luciferase in each colony. The light output of different types of luciferase can be analysed to discover which ones have enhanced characteristics that could be used in research.
Image credits: Terry Priest, s58y, Cassandra Stowe
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Bioluminescence
I don’t think I’ve ever made it this far through an art challenge month before! I had to get to day whatever aquatic was, because bioluminescent deep sea mermaids.
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Painting for my boyfriends birthday next wednesday
Andrew Wyeth
Night Hauling 1944
Tempera on masonite
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
Night Hauling was painted by the twenty-seven-year-old Andrew Wyeth at the height of World War Two. Set against the Maine coast in Port Clyde, where Wyeth’s family summered, it depicts a shadowy lobsterman hauling in a trap under cover of darkness, the scene lit only by the figure’s concealed lamp and the water’s startling nocturnal phosphorescence.
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Deep-ocean bioluminescence exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History.
Original Glow Blog
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37th plate from Ernst Haeckel’s “Kunstformen der Natur” (1904), depicting organisms classified as Siphonophorae.
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Arachnocampa, in it’s larval stage is bioluminescent. It spins a nest out of silk on the ceilings of caves and then hangs long snares covered in sticky mucus. The larva’s glow attracts prey into the threads. HOW COOL IS THAT SHIT!?
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Have you ever seen the milky way? ✨
I saw it once, at 2am on an empty beach in southern Oregon. I was so awestruck I stayed on the beach until the sun began to rise and I couldn’t see it anymore. I wanted so much to reach out and touch it. Run my hands through it’s smokey spires and trails until I was covered in stardust.
Have you ever walked along a beach at night covered in bioluminescent algae?
After seeing the milky way I developed a habit of going to the coast at night. I wound up seeing some amazing things. Sea otters and meteor showers and bioluminescent algae.
At the time I encountered it, I had no idea what I was even looking at. But, I wasn’t afraid of it and it was like walking in starlight.
Calling this “Rise”, part of the @pangeaseed series I am slowly working on. Trying to raise awareness about the state of our oceans and rising acid levels causing coral bleaching and an explosion of jellyfish in the sea. Donate today, they do great work.
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