Cold Light

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!