Jellyfish Proteins Improve the Polariton Laser

Great, now if this escapes from the lab we will have Jellyfish with frickin' lasers on their heads! :-)

I struggle to imagine a solid use for this effect (although it suppose it would provide an evolutionary advantage to e.coli that could lase their food before eating it.) Quantum dots I get, high efficiency LEDs and lasers.

This may be a stupid lay question, but to me the existence and usefulness ("realness") of quasiparticles suggests an obvious analogy to actual particles. In other words if we understand that quantum mechanics leads to quasiparticles as emergent phenomena within solids, shouldn't we consider that highly suggestive that real particles could best also be understood as simply emergent phenomena based on a more fundamental quantum reality?

this is like the origin story for a supervillain. hard at work in his/her lab, a flash of gamma radiation turns this intrepid jellyfish geneticist into ...