Enlarge / A whole three-banded panther worm from the muscle transgenic line, where the muscle cells are glowing green. (credit: Lorenzo Ricci) In 1961, Osamu Shimomura and Frank Johnson isolated a protein through jellyfish that glow green under UV light. Corals, too, can fluoresce in a wide range of hues, thanks to similar proteins. Now, scientists […]
In case you needed something else to worry about… you can now apparently get parasitic worms from prepackaged salad! At least that’s what one woman claimed in a now-viral series of TikToks, telling her followers she believes she contracted ascaris worms from some prepackaged greens. TikTok user @jquelly, a woman from Montana named Jacqui, explained in […]