Fluorescent Proteins 101: History of Fluorescent Proteins
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Blog Post
Published
Aug. 7, 2017, 1:58 p.m.
...’t until much later when, in the 1960s, Osamu Shimomura studied the bioluminescent properties observed...green light. To investigate this green glimmer, Shimomura collected many, many jellyfish specimens from ...Sound in the Pacific Ocean, off of the coast of Washington state. Using these samples, he was able to isolate...mutations that alter and improve its function and shift its emission spectrum.
New fluorescent proteins ...when the Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Shimomura, Chalfie, and Tsien for their work on GFP. This...