{"id":3026,"date":"2008-10-08T08:35:18","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T08:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/08\/chemistry-nobel-for-glowing-gr\/"},"modified":"2008-10-08T08:35:18","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T08:35:18","slug":"chemistry-nobel-for-glowing-gr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/08\/chemistry-nobel-for-glowing-gr\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemistry Nobel for Glowing Green Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded for <a href=\"http:\/\/nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/chemistry\/laureates\/2008\/\">the discovery of green fluorescent protein<\/a>. It&#8217;s split equally among three scientists, Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Y. Tsien (and just out of curiousity, how do they choose the order in which they list those names?).<\/p>\n<p>The citation just says &#8220;for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP,&#8221; which is bound to produce some snickering. Perhaps it was used in an earmark-funded study of bear DNA, or some such&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My impression, though, based on several years worth of sitting through student talks about biochemistry, is that this really is a critical tool for the study of cell biology and biochemistry. I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;ll be tons of commentary from the Life Science portion of ScienceBlogs, though, so if you want to know all the gory details, look there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded for the discovery of green fluorescent protein. It&#8217;s split equally among three scientists, Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Y. Tsien (and just out of curiousity, how do they choose the order in which they list those names?). The citation just says &#8220;for the discovery and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/08\/chemistry-nobel-for-glowing-gr\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chemistry Nobel for Glowing Green Stuff<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in_the_news","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}