Fluorescent Proteins 101: History of Fluorescent Proteins
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Blog Post
...known about bioluminescent organisms and their characteristic radiance for some time – there are records ...after that, in 1994, Prasher’s collaborator Martin Chalfie expressed GFP in exogenous organisms (E. coli, ...and later C. elegans) for the first time.
After Chalfie’s work, scientists really started to take notice... Roger Tsien resulted in much of our current mechanistic understanding of GFP’s function. His lab described...Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Shimomura, Chalfie, and Tsien for their work on GFP. This great honor...