Their work, "Designing Quantum Rods for Optimized Energy Transfer with Firefly Luciferase Enzymes," was published online May 23 in Nano Letters and is forthcoming in print. Collaborating on the ...

In their paper “Designing Quantum Rods for Optimized Energy Transfer with Firefly Luciferase Enzymes”, which was published online in Nano Letters, they explain their plan to harness the ...

"Bioluminescence from the catalytic transformation of firefly luciferin by the firefly luciferase enzyme exhibits a high efficiency for photon production and a 612 nanometer emission frequency ...

Luciferase enzymes and luciferin compounds were discovered ... that type of comparison is easily made with the firefly luciferase. Dr. McDonald explains by adding that virus to lung, heart ...

Similarly, luciferase enzymes have very little to do with Lucifer ... of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) have been firefly luciferase to “develop faster and more accurate diagnostic ...

Such is the case with research carried out by a Swiss team, which has borrowed from the mechanics behind the firefly's glow ... have manipulated luciferase, the enzyme that creates the light ...

Luciferase is a bioluminescence producing enzyme of firefly that produces light when it catalyzes the oxidation of ...

We know the enzyme they use to make light (called ... such that lots of people who have never even seen a firefly have used firefly luciferase in the lab. But on another level, there's a lot ...

You say it gets in more, it gets in less, that type of comparison is easily made with the firefly luciferase.” Dr. McDonald explains by adding that virus to lung, heart, and vascular cells ...

This is all false. Luciferase is a genuine scientific term that refers to an enzyme capable of emitting light. If you've ever seen a firefly light up, you've witnessed luciferase in action.

Apparently there's evidence for multiple origins of luciferase enzymes within the firefly family, each following a similar path of gene duplication and repurposing. (Or not? Science is complicated!) ...