In this undated publicity photo released by Tsien Lab and the University of California, San Diego, E. coli expressing various fluorescent proteins were used to draw this image in a Petri dish. Japanese researcher Osamu Shimomura and Americans Roger Tsien and Martin Chalfie were jointly awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for Chemistry October 8, 2008. They won "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP". [Agencies] |
