Throughout history, humans have been fascinated by the living light produced by luminescent organisms. Today, the glimmering power of bioluminescence hasbeen harnessed for lifesaving uses in medicine, from lighting up structures inside the brain to illuminating the progression of cancer cells. Are huma...
for example, usesbioluminescent lures, resembling fishing rods, to attract prey towards their large mouths. Intriguingly, the anglerfish's light is actually produced byPhotobacterium, a bacterium that lives in symbiosis with the fish inside its esca (lure). ...
Mobile-CRISPRi as a powerful tool for modulating Vibrio gene expression CRISPRi (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Palindromic Repeats interference) is a gene knockdown method that uses a deactivated Cas9 protein (dCas9) that bin... Logan J. Geyman,Madeline P. Tanner,Natalia Rosario-Meléndez,... ...
making it useful for many purposes. The functions of bioluminescence are grouped into offensive, defensive, and intraspecific (Haddock et al., 2010,Fig. 5). The offensive uses include luring (e.g. anglerfish), stunning or blinding prey with light, and searching for prey with “searchlights”,...
BLI is an optical imaging method that uses bioluminescence which includes the transfer of a reporter gene capable of encoding a specific luciferase protein to target stem cells, and has been used extensively in preclinical studies of stem cell imaging in the brain for many years. Bioluminescence ha...
This bacterium uses quorum-sensing systems to regulate its physiological processes, including the expression of virulence traits, to adapt and proliferate within a host. Here, we describe the construction and application of two bioluminescence-based reporter systems for the direct detection of the ...
t mixing from the surface down into the deep ocean as much as it used to, so less oxygen is making its way down to the depths. Ultimately, though, anglerfish are still so mysterious that for many, "we just don’t know" how humans might affect them, Gerringer said – or even what ...
(2021). In Vivo Bioluminescence Imaging of HBV Replicating Hepatocytes Allows for the Monitoring of Anti-Viral Immunity. Viruses, 13(11), 2273. https://doi.org/10.3390/v13112273 Note that from the first issue of 2016, this journal uses article numbers instead of page numbers. See further ...
This work will provide a solid foundation for future studies related to the field of marine bioluminescence. Keywords: bioluminescence; deep-sea; diversity; systematics; photophores; photocytes; marine luminescent animals1. Introduction Bioluminescence has fascinated humans and puzzled scientists since ...