technology

Bioluminescent dinoflagellate culture

Pyrocystis-type marine plankton kept in a lit, temperature-stable vessel, emitting blue-green light via a luciferin-luciferase reaction when agitated.

Where it's used

Bio-art kits
Consumer and classroom kits that turn living organisms into a visual or decorative product — Amino Labs' pigmented-yeast Canvas Kit living paintings, Carolina Biological's Winogradsky Column microbial-diversity column, PyroFarms' bioluminescent-plankton Bio-Orb, and Micro Safari's live-ecosystem viewing slides — distinct from data-driven bio-generative-art installations and from CRISPR/DNA-extraction education kits, which do not produce a visual living artifact.
education-workforce 8 min