Aglow in the Dark

Author: Vincent Pieribone
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0674024133

Aglow in the Dark: The Revolutionary Science of Biofluorescence

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. Download Aglow in the Dark: The Revolutionary Science of Biofluorescence from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. The substance he discovered, green fluorescent protein, would revolutionize 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 twentieth century. The story unfolds in far-flung places, from the coral reefs of the Pacific Ocean, to the medical schools and marine stations of our leading universities, to a cold Search and find a lot of engineering books in many category availabe for free download.

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