Technique developed to carry protein instructions into cell

​San Francisco: Researchers at Stanford University have been refining compounds that would carry instructions for assembling the protein that makes fireflies light up and deliver them into the cells of an anesthetised mouse.

If their technique worked, the mouse would glow in the dark; and if successful in humans, the technique could be useful for vaccines or cancer therapies, Xinhua news agency reported.

The result shows that not only the mouse glowed, but it also later woke up and ran around, completely unaware of the complex series of events that had just taken place within its body.