The green fluorescent protein was originally used to discover whether genes were present at all.

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Scientists who want to insert green fluorescent protein into cells are no longer restricted to green.

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Green fluorescent protein absorbs this blue and re-emits it as a green glow.

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Green fluorescent protein was first discovered by Osamu Shimomura four decades ago.

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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.

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Shimomura first noticed green fluorescent protein (GFP) in 1962.

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Instead it was a molecule called green fluorescent protein.

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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.

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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.

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Mice so illuminated produced green fluorescent protein.

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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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