• Question: I love worms how did you make them glow?

    Asked by sesquipedalianist to Kerstin on 17 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Kerstin Zechner

      Kerstin Zechner answered on 17 Mar 2010:


      Yeah, worms rock don’t they? You can inject DNA coding for a gene into the worm’s gonad (which is basically their private parts, I’m not too sure if they enjoy it… :S) and they will end up laying eggs with babies that express the gene you injected. I injected two genes, one of protein that glows green and one of a protein that glows red. If you look at the worms under a UV light, they glow! I’ll try to put a pic!

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