商品簡介
Writing for a general audience, Zimmer (chemistry, Connecticut College) describes his own and others' research in bioluminescence, particularly that found in a green fluorescent protein in one species of jellyfish. He describes how that protein was isolated, cloned, and introduced to a variety of flora and fauna, and how bioluminescence has serious and startling applications in research on cancer, bone marrow conditions, and diabetes; in drought-proofing crops; and even the in war on terrorism by making dangerous biological materials bioluminescent. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Marc Zimmer, Ph.D., is the Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Teaching Professor and professor of chemistry at Connecticut College. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, and he has published more than fifty scientific papers, mainly on the topic of bioluminescence.
