Living Plants That Glow Like a Lamp (2018)

Re:Living Plants That Glow Like a Lamp (2018) by lurquer on Friday May 10, 2019 @04:24PM (#19881897)

If you inject glowing nanoparticles into a watercress, the glowing nanoparticles will continue to glow.

You can also inject them into hotdogs. Or, for that matter, just about anything.

Am I missing something?

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Re:Living Plants That Glow Like a Lamp (2018) by mmmrtl on Friday May 10, 2019 @04:52PM (#19882117)

A little bit. Your hotdog would have to be alive. These nanoparticles are the enzymes and substrates for a luciferin reaction, which uses the plant's energy in the form of ATP to power the reaction, giving off light.

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Re:Living Plants That Glow Like a Lamp (2018) by 781 on Friday May 10, 2019 @06:10PM (#19882742)

Injecting is the first phase. In the second one you make the plant produce the nanoparticles itself.

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