• Question: Would it be possible to make the worms glow any other colour?

    Asked by veatrix to Kerstin on 23 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Kerstin Zechner

      Kerstin Zechner answered on 23 Mar 2010:

      Yes, there are loads of different fluorescent proteins, most of which have been taken from nature. Others have been improved or cloned specifically for scientific research. So you could hypothetically make most animals glow, however you’d need to genetically modify them first.

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