Pharyngula (Free subscription) | yesterday
This is too much verisimilitude. The movie below is of the mating behavior of the jellyfish Carybdea sivickisi , and the first thing you'll notice is that the scientists have set it to good old classic porn music. The second thing you'll notice, that I found annoying, is that they used too high a power objective to film it, so everything is jerking everywhere and none of the participants stay in the...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday
Osamu Shimomura of Japan and Americans Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien were honoured for their work on green fluorescent protein, or GFP.Researchers worldwide now use GFP to track such processes as the development of brain cells, the growth of tumours and the spread of cancer cells.It has let them study nerve cell damage from Alzheimer's disease and see how insulin-producing beta cells arise in the...
Opinion L.A. (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Columnists tilt Obama-ward on today's Op-Ed page. Timothy Garton Ash suggests a Barack Obama victory next month could tone down the corrosive culture wars, and in her column Rosa Brooks counts John McCain out of the race: he doesn't know it, she says, but "he's a dead man walking." That means President Obama will be the one who has to fix the economy, Brooks writes as she turns her attention to his...
TREND HUNTER Magazine (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
(TrendHunter.com) This illuminated USB aquarium comes complete with jellyfish to capture the imagination and will help to calm the stressed-out soul. Put it on your computer desk and gaze at the jellyfish to help you stay…
STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Two Americans and a U.S.-based Japanese scientist won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for research on a glowing jellyfish protein that revolutionized the ability to study disease and normal development in living organisms. Japan's Osamu Shimomura and Americans Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien shared the prize for discovering and developing green fluorescent protein, or GFP,...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Three scientists turned a glowing green protein from jellyfish into a revolutionary way to watch the tiniest details of life
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Jonathan Amos at the BBC: Martin Chalfie, Roger Tsien and Osamu Shimomura made it possible to exploit the genetic mechanism responsible for luminosity in the marine creatures. Today, countless scientists use this knowledge to tag biological systems. Glowing markers will...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Three U.S.-based scientists won a Nobel Prize yesterday for turning a glowing green protein from jellyfish into a revolutionary way to watch the tiniest details of life within cells and living creatures.
Thoughts from Kansas (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Green fluorescent protein is a standard tool in molecular biology. Researchers insert the gene into an animal's genome, and then watch for a characteristic green glow when a particular region is activated. By finding cells where the gene inserts near another protein of interest, it is possible to use that glow as a marker for the point in development or in a biochemical pathway when a particular gene...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Three U.S.-based scientists won a Nobel Prize on Wednesday for turning a glowing green protein from jellyfish into a revolutionary way...
NPR (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Two Americans and a Japanese researcher have won the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work creating a method of unveiling the previously invisible machinery inside living cells, using a protein that glows in the dark.
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Two Americans and a U.S.-based Japanese scientist won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for research on a glowing jellyfish protein that revolutionized the ability to study disease and normal development in living organisms.
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
A pharmacologist from the University of California at San Diego and two other U.S.-based scientists won the 2008 Nobel Prize for chemistry on Wednesday for their development of a green fluorescent protein from jellyfish that has provided researchers their first new window into the workings of the cell since the development of the microscope.
Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Last week the infamous “Ignoble Prize” went to scientists who studied how the crunch of potato chips improve their taste, investigated how income is related to the monthly cycles of lap dancers, and investigated how slime mold figures out how to solve Mazes. But today’s actual genuine Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three scientists [...]
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
-- Three U.S.-based scientists won a Nobel Prize on Wednesday for turning a glowing green protein from jellyfish into a revolutionary way to watch the tiniest details of life within cells and living creatures.
