The green fluorescent protein was originally used to discover whether genes were present at all.
Scientists who want to insert green fluorescent protein into cells are no longer restricted to green.
They also inserted a gene that produces a fluorescent protein called GFP, Nature Methods journal reports.
Green fluorescent protein absorbs this blue and re-emits it as a green glow.
Green fluorescent protein was first discovered by Osamu Shimomura four decades ago.
Genetic engineers have, however, tinkered with the phage, and have arranged for it to produce a fluorescent protein called luciferase when it infects a bacterium.
Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien were responsible for the discovery of a substance called green fluorescent protein, and its development into an important tool of modern biology.
Shimomura first noticed green fluorescent protein (GFP) in 1962.
In the early 1990s, a Columbia professor named Martin Chalfie heard that another researcher, Douglas Prasher, was trying to locate the gene for a green fluorescent protein (GFP) found in jellyfish.
One of the first stories I was ever really proud of was on the history of green fluorescent protein, or GFP, a glowing protein found in jellyfish that can be used to make living things glow.
The Colorado team solved the problem by using a fluorescent green protein to highlight rare fragments of the enzyme that did not clump together in the usual way.
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