COLD LIGHT
By Anita Sitarski
Boyds Mills Press, 2007
Category: Middle Grade Nonfiction
Earlier this week the 2008 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to three scientists for their work on green fluorescent protein (GFP):
Osamu Shimamura purfied GFP from this jellyfish;
Martin Chalfie used it as a glow-in-the-dark tag to visualize other proteins in other organisms;
Roger Tsien engineered versions that glow in crazy cool colors.
Hot stuff.
Even hotter? The nitty gritty has been clearly and enthusiastically explained in Anita Sitarski’s COLD LIGHT, a book written for middle graders but perfect for anyone now needing to brush up on the history and science of bioluminescence.
Kids books rock!