The Glowing Plant project was the first and last synthetic biology campaign on Kickstarter. After a series of missteps, the creators gave up on their idea of making genetically-modified glowing ...

To create their glowing plant prototypes, the scientists relied on an enzyme that many of us are already familiar with, even if you’ve never heard the name. It’s called luciferase, and it’s ...

As part of the scientific team that discovered the bioluminescence genes from fireflies, I helped create the first glowing ...

The result is a rechargeable glowing plant. The other approach inserts genes ... Michael Strano, an MIT chemical engineering professor working on the project. “This is a big step toward plant ...