In the early 1960s, in a small shack on the Washington coast, a young, self-educated Japanese scientist performed an experiment to determine what made a certain jellyfish glow. The substance he discovered, green fluorescent protein, would revolutionise molecular biology, transforming our study of everything from the AIDS virus to the workings of the brain. "Aglow in the Dark" follows the path that took this glowing compound from its inauspicious arrival on the scientific scene to its present-day eminence as one of the most groundbreaking discoveries of the 20th century.
- ISBN10 0674019210
- ISBN13 9780674019218
- Publish Date 15 January 2006
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 September 2009
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Harvard University Press
- Imprint The Belknap Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 206
- Language English