What if your garden didn’t go dark after sunset? The Firefly Petunia from Light Bio brings a magical glow to your nighttime landscape, thanks to cutting-edge biotechnology. Developed using genes from ...

The world of genetics has really had a tremendous impact on our lives. There is a lot of talk about GMOs, or genetically modified organisms, in the news. Labels even alert us to the presence of these ...

You can now ditch your night light for a greener solution. A plant that glows in the dark has been developed by US bioengineers. Starlight Avatar, which works like a firefly, is the first plant to ...

AMMON, Idaho (KIFI) — Spring has sprung, and so has a new flower that glows in the dark. The Firefly Petunia is a flower genetically modified to give off a soft, greenish light. This is the first year ...

The sci-fi dream that gardens and parks would one day glow like Pandora, the alien moon in Avatar, is decades old. Early attempts to splice genes into plants to make them glow date back to the 1980s, ...

If you’ve spent any time on the internet over the past few weeks, you’ve probably stumbled upon the glow-in-the-dark petunia that scientists genetically engineered to emit a continuous green glow. The ...

Lightning bugs are not the only thing glowing in Iowa gardens this summer. Firefly petunias were sold at select flower nurseries around Iowa, with some locations selling out of the glowing flowers. At ...

Glow-in-the-dark stars feel like a staple of childhood. You may have stuck them to your bedroom ceiling in fifth grade and then discovered them, on a visit home decades later, still lighting up ...