Useful Links / Further Reading
| The Nobel Laureate |
| Osamu Shimomura, The GFP Site |
| Martin Chalfie, Columbia University, USA |
| Roger Y. Tsien, Tsien Laboratory, University of California, San Diego, USA |
| Movie |
| A cell producing GFP-tagged HIV particles (green dots), Nature |
| Scientific review articles |
| Shimomura, O. (2005) The discovery of aequorin and green fluorescent protein. Journal of Microscopy 217 3-15 |
| Shaner, N.C. et al. (2008) Improving the photostability of bright monomeric orange and red fluorescent proteins. Nature Methods 5 545-551 |
| Popular scientific books |
| Pieribone, V., Gruber D. F., A Glow in the Dark. 2005, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England, The Belknap Press, Harvard University Press |
| Zimmer M., Glowing Genes. 2005, Amherst, New York, Prometheus Books |
Nobel Prizes and laureates
Six prizes were awarded for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. The 12 laureates' work and discoveries range from proteins' structures and machine learning to fighting for a world free of nuclear weapons.
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