“Being a European, I have envy that consumers in the United States can have their hands on these plants ... thanks to a group of genes from the bioluminescent mushroom Neonothopanus nambi.

In the video, Lokesh waves his hands across the sand to produce the bluish glow. “Every step I took was glowing. Whenever I set the bag or tripod down, it would glow,” Lokesh told KUSI.

And there’s something special in the water: Here you’ll find the most reliable display of naturally occurring bioluminescence in the United States. The more sheltered northern reaches of the ...

Perhaps there is no greater magic than catching fireflies in a Pennsylvania blackberry thicket or walking on a river beach at night only to find each footprint glowing in the sand. Bioluminescence ...

Keith Wood, Ph.D. spent most of his career in pharmaceutical research in molecular and chemical biology, using his work with bioluminescence to understand how molecules interacted with diseases.

Many marine organisms–including sea worms, some jellyfish, sea pickles, and more–can emit ethereal glow through a process called bioluminescence. The evolutionary origins of this light ...

While bioluminescent proteins offer several advantages over fluorescent proteins, the limited availability of color variants has made it difficult to observe multiple targets simultaneously.