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(Some Guy)   Scientists want to inject "quantum dots" with genetically modified firefly protein into your body to light things up and look around. "Light bulbs aren't cool enough," they explain. What could possibly go wrong?   (livescience.com) divider line
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Rotten Miracle
2006-04-26 5:49:00 PM  
Aren't they already using fiber optics to look around inside? What's stopping them from projecting light through the fiber?
 
bobgilbert
2006-04-26 5:58:02 PM  
That website is awesome.
 
mistersite
2006-04-26 5:59:00 PM  
Quantum Dots: The Light Bulb of the Future!
 
muninsfire
2006-04-26 6:19:15 PM  
Can I get a bunch on my finger? Besides the ET-thingy, it'd be really handy to have a built-in flashlight.
 
dpryan
2006-04-26 6:48:20 PM  
I don't get what's so scary about this article...but maybe that's because I'm a neuroscientist.

muninsfire: You could, but it wouldn't be bright enough to be usable (you could just apply a lentivirus containing the luciferase...I don't know of a good way to get the quantum dot in though).

/Back to the fluorescent green cells
//EGFP is neat
 
st_gulik
2006-04-26 6:48:22 PM  
Quantum Dot Tattoos. Hells yeah.
 
st_gulik
2006-04-26 7:03:06 PM  
QDots in my Eyeballs!
 
Agent51
2006-04-26 7:36:53 PM  
In Your eyes like this!!

http://photos1.blogger.com/img/276/1938/320/ridick.jpg
 
WhyteRaven74
2006-04-26 7:39:02 PM  
Given anything the scale of these dots would not last long in the human body, no worries. As for the genetically engineered stuff, it's just the protein. Not actual genetic material.

I, for one, welcome our glowing quantum dot injecting overlords.
 
saintwrathchild
2006-04-26 7:39:03 PM  
I feel a sudden case of the awesomes coming on.
/Disagrees with submitter
 
BlueBook
2006-04-26 8:03:38 PM  
So we won't need night vision cams to watch Paris shag?

/DRTFA
//Doesn't surprise me, after the glow-in-the-dark pigs.
 
JessicaRaven
2006-04-26 9:50:53 PM  
I second the quantum dot tattoos, actually my boyfriend is in college for genetic research, and some of the ideas he came up with (if it werent for the fact that they'd be grossly illegal) would be really cool


quick and dirty concept of quantum dot tattoos

[image from img.photobucket.com too old to be available]
 
Eric The Pilot
2006-04-26 10:02:39 PM  
[image from fireflywiki.org too old to be available]
Sum one need Firefly protein?
 
Tainted1
2006-04-26 10:29:49 PM  
Oooh noooooooeees, Technology!!! Run for the hills and take your tallow candles with you!
 
Tom-Servo
2006-04-26 11:11:33 PM  
[image from ekallman.com too old to be available]

Now that's what I call a "quantum dot"!
 
Tom-Servo
2006-04-26 11:13:15 PM  
Oh, and it's "opposite day" today here where I live.
 
Landofmiddlegirth
2006-04-26 11:38:53 PM  
submitter is a moran who can't come up with a unique headline? That's what could possibly go wrong.
 
thewit
2006-04-27 1:40:51 AM  
sweet. i ran a dual TCF/LEF-Luciferase assay this morning with the renilla (sea pansy) gene.

i wouldnt exactly call bioluminescent vectors "quantum dots".
silly stanford, when will they learn?
 
Cinletharwi
2006-04-27 2:18:30 AM  
submitter: Scientists want to inject "quantum dots" with genetically modified firefly protein into your body

How much does that pay?

/broke
 
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