Sentences with phrase «jellyfish glow»

[Engineer Helene Steiner] has developed a bio-pixel display that can play games such as Tetris, Snake or Pong using the protein that makes jellyfish glow

The three researchers were sharing the $ 1.4 million award for the development of green fluorescent protein (GFP), a molecule that makes certain jellyfish glow.

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Have the kids make their own jellyfish that glow just like the ones in the sea, or make a batch of ocean play dough!

Past themes have included flight where kids could make paper airplanes and rubber band rockets, and glowing animals where kids can create glowing, climbing jellyfish and snuggle with a glowworm that really glows.

Search beneath the waves of Nantucket Sound for fascinating marine life including dogfish sharks, black sea bass, scup, spider crabs, squid, calico crabs, pipefish, and glowing comb jellyfish.

This hand - blown glow in the dark glass jellyfish paperweight looks absolutely magnificent from any angle.

This triggers the production of a colourful substance such as the protein that gives jellyfish a green glow.

Through Cormier, Prasher learned about a species of jellyfish living in the cold waters of the North Pacific, Aequorea victoria, which emitted a green glow and was one of the most intensely bioluminescent creatures on the planet.

Some jellyfish also seem to exploit red pigment's ability to absorb blue light: Their stomachs are colored red, so when they swallow their glowing blue - green prey, the meal seems to vanish, hidden behind a red wall.

The target fragment binds to a gene switch in the DNA, which triggers the production of a colourful substance such as the protein that gives jellyfish a green glow under ultraviolet light, or proteins from bacteria that produce colour changes visible to the naked eye.

Douglas Youvan and his colleagues at the Palo Alto Institute of Molecular Medicine in Mountain View, California, are working with artificial variants of «green fluorescent protein», the chemical that makes the jellyfish Aequorea Victoria glow.

«The protein found in jellyfish is excited by blue or violet light of 390 nanometres, and shines with a green glow,» says Youvan.

This gene is associated with cytokinin responses within the plant cells and is fused with a jellyfish protein that glows green when turned on.

Here's one munching on the tentacles of a glowing jellyfish in the Great Barrier Reef.

The plants» sky - blue glow comes from a protein called aequorin which a type of jellyfish called Aequorea victoria manufactures naturally.

Masaru Okabe, a biologist at Osaka University in Japan, engineered these green mice by injecting into mouse embryos a jellyfish gene that codes for a glowing protein called green fluorescent protein.

Fluorescent or glowing proteins, which are substantial to molecular biology today, were developed from research interest in the phenomenon of glowing marine organisms, such as Aequorea aequorea (a jellyfish) or Noctiluca scintillans (a dinoflagellate).

Present in a species of jellyfish called Aequorea Victoria, this gene allows the animal to glow green - blue.

Richard Nicoll literally lit up London Fashion Week on Sunday morning by opening his show with an otherwise effortless, fringy slip dress composed of some fiber - optic technology I don't entirely understand that made the dress glow like a jellyfish.

Its oceans contain Dr. Seuss seascapes and teem with goofy digitized sea creatures — the 60 - foot, fluorescent jaguar shark, a rhinestone - encrusted bluefin, glowing «electric jellyfish» that wash up on shore, etc. (A fish able to turn itself inside - out appeared in the trailer but didn't make the cut for the movie.)

Lee uses the 3 - D effects with gentle sophistication: flying fish, glowing jellyfish, an island of meerkats, a humpback whale swathed in plankton — all are luminously rendered.

Some 16 years after the original series made such a dramatic splash, Blue Planet II, narrated by the 90 - year - old broadcaster, is airing seven episodes, including incredible bioluminescent sea creatures, which glow in the dark at the bottom of the deepest oceans — similar to the incredible flashlight fish and illuminating jellyfish at SEA LIFE Blackpool.

Read on to find out her secrets for staying glam on the glow, her obsession with calming oils, and what it's like to shoot swimwear in an ocean full of jellyfish — and don't forget to read last week's column with Veep actress Anna Chlumsky.

Strands of glowing lights in textured crystalline resin orbs hang from the ceiling, like jewel - toned jellyfish, illuminating the darkness of the room.

Suddenly the camera plunges deep underwater, suspending itself among a nebula of glowing jellyfish that borders on the cosmological.

The underwater series beautifully captures glowing medusa jellyfish in vibrant hues of electric blue.

A whopping 97 to 99.7 percent of the cnidarians (jellyfish and siphonophores) have the ability to glow; meanwhile half of the fishes and cephalopods produce their own light.

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Thanks to HDR, shots of luminescent objects, like a jellyfish in dark waters or neon in a dark bar, actually appeared to glow.