“
T
he implications of using ‘light by
nature’ to illuminate the secrets of
life are simply staggering.
A rainbow of fluorescent proteins is throwing
open to exploration a living terra incognita that
is beyond the reach of even the most powerful
microscopes and scanners.
it now seems entirely plausible that this new territory—
—Sylvia Nasar, author of
A Beautiful Mind
the deepest and hitherto darkest chambers of the cells—
will prove to be every bit as vast and full of
promise (and dangers too, no doubt) as those
opened up in the 19
th
century by the locomotive,
steamship, and telegraph.”
