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Green Fluorescent Protein: Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2008
Cheers to the Nobel Prize winners!
Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Tsien were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry today for their work with fluorescent proteins. In brief, Shimomura first isolated and characterized GFP; Chalfie was the first to generate a fusion protein of GFP so that the behavior of proteins could be studied in living cells and systems; Tsien has developed a literal rainbow of derivatives of GFP similar proteins.
I am thrilled.
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This image shows green fluorescent protein that one of my students isolated from E. coli and illuminated with with a violet light source. We plan to use a higher resolution version of this image in future publication.
image copyright 2008, all rights reserved
Green Fluorescent Protein: Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2008
Cheers to the Nobel Prize winners!
Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Tsien were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry today for their work with fluorescent proteins. In brief, Shimomura first isolated and characterized GFP; Chalfie was the first to generate a fusion protein of GFP so that the behavior of proteins could be studied in living cells and systems; Tsien has developed a literal rainbow of derivatives of GFP similar proteins.
I am thrilled.
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This image shows green fluorescent protein that one of my students isolated from E. coli and illuminated with with a violet light source. We plan to use a higher resolution version of this image in future publication.
image copyright 2008, all rights reserved