Bioluminescent organisms produce and radiate light. There are thousands of bioluminescent animals, including species of fishes, squid, shrimps and jellyfish. The light these creatures emit is created ...

Bioluminescence is widely used for in vivo ... Unfortunately they are not particularly suited to whole-animal in vivo imaging, an application that is becoming increasingly popular.

Bioluminescence first evolved in animals at least 540 million years ago, new research suggests. The study, which focused on ...