A beach in glowing bacteria


	A beach in glowing bacteria

JohnWaterman

1-24-2009 5:45 PM

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1-24-2009 9:37 PM

Kelika

cool bugs!

1-25-2009 12:50 PM

tanyamm

Very pretty, but can you catch anything from it?

1-26-2009 12:47 AM

Nerfzilla

There's nothing I love more than artistic bacterium.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/13604d91-7c8e-417d-9508-5c98ce72f96d/E83F422A-AE8A-4A56-A696-11E732091277/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/01/a_beach_in_glowing_bacteria.php" href="http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/01/a_beach_in_glowing_bacteria.php" style="font-size: 11px;">scienceblogs.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/01/a_beach_in_glowing_bacteria.php"><P>This beach scence was drawn using eight strains of glowing bacteria. Each has been engineered to produce a differently coloured fluorescent protein. The bacteria were swabbed over a nutrient plate and left to grow overnight, resulting in this living, shining work of art. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/01/a_beach_in_glowing_bacteria.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/scienceblogs.com/img/69BD5E50-0876-485C-B911-735BDFE4101F" alt="GFP-beach.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/01/a_beach_in_glowing_bacteria.php"><P>The best thing about it is that it comes from the laboratory of <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Tsien">Roger Tsien</A>, who won a Nobel Prize for his discovery of the <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_fluorescent_protein">green fluorescent protein</A>, GFP. This big daddy of glowing proteins was isolated from a species of jellyfish and its structure has since been tweaked to produce variants that glow in different colours. By providing scientists with a way of visualising the goings-on inside living cells, GFP and its kin have revolutionised modern molecular biology. And, obviously, it makes for pretty, pretty pictures.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/01/a_beach_in_glowing_bacteria.php"><P>(Hat tip to the wonderful <A href="http://observationsofanerd.blogspot.com/">Observation of a Nerd</A>)<BR /></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E83F422A-AE8A-4A56-A696-11E732091277/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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