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Chinese Scientists Made Glowing Plants with Firefly DNA to Replace Streetlights
(www.zmescience.com)
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Pretty old news, these were some of the first experiments with gene editing being done quite awhile ago, maybe over a decade. They've even made glowing animals with the same techniques although those are not publicly available for purchase
I think they are based on GFP but there is https://www.glofish.com/