7.341 Brightening up Life: Harnessing the Power of Fluorescence Imaging to Observe Biology in Action, Fall 2006

One summer in the 1960s a young Japanese researcher, with the help of a few high school students, chopped up ten thousand jellyfish. As a by-product of this harvest, they isolated a green fluorescent protein (GFP). Since then, GFP has triggered a revolution in our understanding of gene expression an...

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Main Authors: Howarth, Mark, Leung, Anthony
Language:en-US
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/148357