#aequorea

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Aequorea victoria

[angelnumber27]

Vincent Callebaut

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Scientists noticed the crystal jelly or Aequorea Victoria would glow green when agitated and glows green under a UV light and that led to advancements in science. After researching the jellyfish and trying to find out the reason it glowed then Osamu Shimomura discovered GFP. They isolated the green fluorescent protein or GFP and cloned it for scientific use. GFP wasn’t perfect and lost its color all the time and wasn’t ideal for more. Researcher Roger Tsien developed GFP variants that came in many different colors and were brighter than original GFP. These allowed researchers to observe more than one thing at a time, the world's leading hospitals use GFP to study all different sicknesses, breast cancer tumor tracking or HIV and even Alzheimer's This took decades of work and took much funding.

[jack-derian]

with: @ghosthxnter​ where: Luna Park

“Come on, try it out!” Jack insisted, a grin remaining on his face as he offered to step aside for the woman next to him, all so she could take his place in front of the game. What-a-mole was a silly game, but one from his childhood, so coming across it at the carnival was thrilling. So he was acting exactly like that, like an actual child, all giddy and so unlike what he looked like. “I’ll buy you a round of drinks if you can beat my high score.”

[ultimatepad]

“Aequorea” by Vincent Callebaut

[isatoutside]

Parasitic actinia Peachia sp. - larvae

by Alexander Semenov

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[gemjellyfish]

Parasitic actinia Peachia sp. - larvae by Alexander Semenov Via Flickr: Aequorea jellyfish with parasitic larvae of actinia Peachia sp.

[angelnumber27]

Aequorea by Vincent Callebaut