luminescence

Full-color photographs and text explore applications of biochemistry, genetics, and electronics through stories from seventeenth-century alchemist, Robert Boyle, and other adventurers who first saw bizarre creatures glowing in the oceans.

Discusses green fluorescent pigment--GFP--from the jellyfish and its use in other organisms such as rabbits and monkeys in order to track the early stages of cancer and other diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's in the hopes that it may lead to a cure.