Jellyfish Help Build World’s First Solid-State Protein Lasers

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Malte Gather and Andy Yun at Harvard Medical School / Mass General Hospital have published in Nature Communications how the special molecular structure of fluorescent proteins enables high luminenscence and excellent optical gain in the solid-state form of the protein.

See here for the University of St Andrews press release on the matter.

See here for the original paper.