The story of GFP begins with Nobel Laureate Osamu Shimomura’s research into a glowing jellyfish in the early 1960s. In this fascinating sea creature, he isolated two proteins: one emits blue light, ...

Georgina Ferry is a science writer specializing in the history of the life sciences in Oxford, UK. Her many books include biographies of the crystallographers Dorothy Hodgkin and Max Perutz ...

As the incidence, manifestations and mechanisms of GFP toxicity all remain unclear, we must be alert to any anomalies in the natural history of GFP-expressing cells.

Figure 3. A result screen of a typical GFP transfection assay. The precision of the GFP transfection assay can be confirmed on the Luna-FL cell counter itself by using the "tag" function.

UC Davis’ Consilience of Art and Science Speaker Series is bringing Alba's creator to town to give a lecture titled "Telepresence and Bio Art." Alba is the “GFP Bunny,” commissioned from a lab by ...

A glowing kitty may help in the fight against AIDS Mayo Clinic Cat owners might find a glow-in-the-dark kitty to be fairly useful—you’ll never trip over the cat at night again—but the Mayo ...