GFP is used to track diseases in the body, like I talked about at the top. But scientists are ringing all kinds of weird, wonderful cookies and glasses of milk out of it. There are Japanese researchers who are using GFP to make silk moths that spin fluorescent silk. Other researchers are putting GFP and bacteria that detect TNT so that they might be able to detect landmines.
An accidental discovery on a nighttime walk led one scientist and his team to wonder: How many mammals glow under ultraviolet light? The list keeps growing, but scientists still aren’t sure why these furry creatures glow.
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