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unusual facts about green fluorescent protein



Niles East High School

Martin Chalfie (class of 1965) was the co–recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP.


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The GFP gene has been introduced and expressed in many procaryotic and eucaryotic cells and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008 was awarded to Martin Chalfie, Osamu Shimomura, and Roger Y. Tsien for their discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein.