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Chemistry News posted 10/8/08 | 1 comments

Chemistry Nobel Glows Fluorescent Green

Three scientists—Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Tsien—will share this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on green fluorescent protein (GFP), the Nobel Foundation announced today.

Thanks to Shimomura's 1962 discovery of GFP from the Aequorea victoria jellyfish, Chalfie's demonstration of GFP's use as a tag for DNA, and Tsien's expansion of the technology, researchers today are able "to watch processes that were previously invisible, such as the development of nerve cells in the brain or how cancer cells spread," according to the Nobel Foundation.... [more]