This is the way a living cell looks down a light microscope.

This is taken through a fiber optics microscope. It's down inside the nest.

You can see, actually that's a fluoroscopy.

In the beginning you see the ants just kind of engaging with the fiber optics microscope.

This is better than neon. The curse of neon!

Not with the microscope.

Do you know the difference between a microscope and a telescope?

Fluorescent

And now they're making Glow rabbits and Glow all sorts of things.

And I looked at it underneath the microscope.

Radioactive yellow.

We take a microscope slide.

You see under a microscope.

Phosphor

Please identify the bacterial specimen under the microscope.

All you're concerned of are the test tubes and microscopes.

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Microscopy for 1,800 patients.

In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work done on a molecule called green fluorescent protein that was isolated from the bioluminescent chemistry of a jellyfish, and it's been equated to the invention of the microscope, in terms of the impact that it has had on cell biology and genetic engineering.

How to use the microscope?

You look wonderful.

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So again this is what they can see under the microscope.

That's better than a glowing chicken.

I mean they're incredibly small, you have to have a microscope to see one.

The light that the fluorescence emits can go through tissue.

Some chose the microscope as their instrument.

And underneath the microscope there were splinters of glass.

Analyse X ray Fluorescence data

It's like a microscope to the rest of the world.

But to me, what's shocking is not just the amount of light, but the fact that it's not just luciferin and luciferase.

That's how people make GloFish.

What I did, I plucked the tag out and put it underneath the microscope.

If it passes the microscopic test, we go for a collection.

When I look into a microscope, Driscoll,

You take a glow gene out of a coral or a jellyfish and you stick it in a zebrafish, and, puff, they glow.

A lot of them can release their luciferin or luferase in the water just the way a squid or an octopus will release an ink cloud.

That's a fluorescent tube refined.

You can look with a microscope and see them on a surface.

We'll book him on suspicion of robbery.

ARS researchers also developed fluorescence techniques and a prototype fluorescent instrument to discriminate and quantify crop residues.

I guess we could make a glow chicken.

It's like building a microscope or telescope and revealing new structures about our own behavior around communication.

And this is what I think is the magic of fluorescence.

This is going to be a glowing source first, which is like bioluminescent bacteria.