Fireflies or lightning bugs make light within their bodies. This process is called bioluminescence and is shared by many other organisms, mostly sea-living or marine organisms. Fireflies light up to attract a mate. ... Gail Shumway/Getty Images; Firefly (Photinus pyralis) on soy bean plant, close-up; See more insect pictures.
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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, hoping to set off a chain of events that has a proven track record at fighting the disease. ... External light sources,
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5, 2002) — St. Louis, November 4, 2002 -- Researchers are using a herpes virus that produces a firefly enzyme to illuminate the virus's course of infection in mice and to help monitor the infection's response to therapy. ... The camera captures light emitted through the tissues of the mouse by the actively replicating virus.
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Ultrastructure of the larval firefly light organ as related to control of light emission. ... The firefly larva has a pair of light organs consisting of a layer of interdigitating, light emitting cells, covered dorsally with a layer of opaque, white cells. Each light organ is ventilated by one large and several...
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"The technique enables us to follow an infection over time as it progresses and resolves, and we can do this repeatedly using the same animal."From the Washington University School of Medicine:Firefly Light Illuminates Course of Herpes Infection in Mice...
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