Aglow in the Dark

The Revolutionary Science of Biofluorescence

with a foreword by Sylvia Nasar

Vincent Pieribone

David F. Gruber

Foreword by Sylvia Nasar

    Foreword by Sylvia Nasar

    Prologue

    1. Living Light

    2. Fireflies of the Sea

    3. From the Fires of Nagasaki

    4. The Secret of the Jellyfish's Flicker

    5. The Light at the End of the Rainbow

    6. Illuminating the Cell

    7. Glow Worms

    8. Fluorescent Spies

    9. A Rosy Dawn

    10. Shimmering Reefs

    11. Lighting Up the Brain

    12. Glowing Thoughts

    Notes

    Acknowledgments

    Index

  • Cover: Aglow in the Dark
  • A photo of the author

Photo of David Gruber by Alice Cotton

Photo of Vincent Pieribone ©Frank Poole

Vincent Pieribone is Associate Professor, Yale University School of Medicine, and Associate Fellow, The John B. Pierce Laboratory, Yale University.

David F. Gruber is a science journalist and biological oceanographer at Rutgers University Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences.