Nature Chemistry volume 15, page 742 (2023)Cite this article 63 Accesses 7 Altmetric Metrics details Organisms that glow are perhaps eerie. Vadim Viviani ponders on the luciferin–luciferase systems responsible for their intriguing bioluminescence. The first luciferin to be isolated and crystallized was that from the marine ostracod Cypridina hilgendorfii, by Osamu Shimomura and co-workers in the 1950s3
