Author: Justin Dingman

A glow-in-the-dark protein called luciferase improves medical diagnostics The study and commercialization of a firefly’s famous ability to illuminate, called bioluminescence, is helping us explore biology and medicine in new and fascinating ways

Posted on March 17, 2020April 7, 2021 by Justin Dingman 8k views

A smaller version of the enzyme that allows fireflies and jellyfish to glow naturally is now being used in medical diagnostics.

O, the Drama! The discovery of oxygen How oxygen’s controversial discovery dismantled the phologiston era and changed science forever.

Posted on February 20, 2020April 6, 2021 by Justin Dingman 893 views

This is the story of how scientists first discovered that oxygen was a thing, in the 1700s. One of our writers did some digging into the…

Which came first, the cysteine or the egg? The amino acid cysteine was thought to be needed to manufacture itself, leading scientists to wonder where the first cysteine molecule came from.

Posted on February 13, 2020April 6, 2021 by Justin Dingman 651 views

Scientists used to think cysteine was required to manufacture itself. Turns out, it isn't. In fact, cysteine slows down the manufacture of…

We can learn about life on other planets by studying viruses These scientists suggest that perhaps viruses were the first "life form" on Earth, a provocative idea!

Posted on January 1, 2020April 6, 2021 by Justin Dingman 207 views

Scientists from the University of Zurich and the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, as well as the Icahn School of Medicine at…

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