I’m a day late, but I was very excited about the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. GFP!
Without GFP I could not have done any of my experiments. I had to look at very small changes and in a pool of partially transfected cells (where not all of the cells took up the DNA) nothing seemed to happen. But by using proteins of knockdown vectors with GFP, I was able to use fluorescence to study only the cells that were actually transfected and noticed that Things Happened!
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Expression Patterns by Eva Amsen
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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- Thursday, 09 Oct ober 2008 - 14:20 UTC
Last updated: Thursday, 09 Oct 2008 - 14:20 UTC
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I am actually looking at GFP at this very moment!
Some great images of glowing genes:
The WIRED images made me realize I’m going to have to mention GFP on my other science blog (which more non-scientists read) because those are the images that always make people feel sorry for the animals.
I always thought that biologists are the ones who really owe a lot to GFP, so was surprised it was a chemistry award.