Fluorescent Proteins 101: History of Fluorescent Proteins
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...caused this glowing phenomenon wasn’t until much later when, in the 1960s, Osamu Shimomura studied the ...Washington state. Using these samples, he was able to isolate two proteins from the jellyfish’s photoorgans; ... absorbs that blue light and glows green.
In the late 1980s, another researcher, Douglas Prasher, got ...expressed GFP in exogenous organisms (E. coli, and later C. elegans) for the first time.
After Chalfie’s ...fluorescent proteins like GFP really are. In this compilation we’ll take a closer look at how they’re used,...