Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded for Fluorescent Proteins

Congratulations to: Osamu Shimomura, 80, an emeritus professor at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. and Boston University Medical School; Martin Chalfie, 61, a professor of biological sciences at Columbia University; and Roger Y. Tsien, 56, a professor of pharmacology at University of California, San Diego.


RGyN Zebrafish Photo by Joshua Cameron

A few have taken the art of fluorescence to the extreme:


Artwork by Nathan Shaner, photography by Paul Steinbach



Brainbow Confocal image by Tamily Weissman. Mouse by Jean Livet and Ryan Draft.

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