Entire industries owe their origins to the fluke 19th-century discovery of fluorescent dyes. Jon Grimm, a senior scientist at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus, explores how dye synthesis sparked the evolution of organic chemistry and how 21st-century chemistry is returning the favor.

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