Scientist make Glow in the Dark Pigs
Three Scientist have been awarded the 2.09 million dollar prize for earning the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. What they did is make Glowing green pigs with the fluorescent protein (GFP) commonly found in Jellyfish. Did anyone know that there was an award along with winning the Nobel Prize? Who says working for the benefit of humanity doesn't pay.
The 10 million Swedish crown ($2.09m) prize recognizes Japanese-born Osamu Shimomura, now of the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts, Martin Chalfie of Columbia University in New York and Roger Tsien of the University of California, San Diego, for their discoveries with green fluorescent protein.
"The remarkable brightly glowing green fluorescent protein, GFP, was first observed in the beautiful jellyfish, Aequorea victoria in 1962," the Nobel Committee for Chemistry at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in a statement.
"Since then, this protein has become one of the most important tools used in contemporary bioscience."[The rest of the story is here]News.com.au
1 comment:
This might be nit picking, but they're not glow in the dark. That refers to phosphorescence, which is similar, but not the same to fluorescence. Those pigs will only glow when UV light is shined on them.
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