December 23, 2024

Illuminating Biology with Luminescence

Scientists make use of the chain reaction between luciferase and luciferin naturally taking place in bioluminescent organisms to study different biological phenomena. Plate readers with innovative optics enable scientists to determine light emission from luciferase expression systems in real time.
View this video from Tecan to find out how multimodal plate readers measure luciferase signals in gene expression, ATP, and protein-protein interaction detection experiments.