Useful Links / Further Reading
| The Nobel Laureate |
| Osamu Shimomura, The GFP Site |
| Martin Chalfie, Columbia University, USA |
| Roger Y. Tsien, Tsien Laboratory, University of California, San Diego, USA |
| Movie |
| A cell producing GFP-tagged HIV particles (green dots), Nature |
| Scientific review articles |
| Shimomura, O. (2005) The discovery of aequorin and green fluorescent protein. Journal of Microscopy 217 3-15 |
| Shaner, N.C. et al. (2008) Improving the photostability of bright monomeric orange and red fluorescent proteins. Nature Methods 5 545-551 |
| Popular scientific books |
| Pieribone, V., Gruber D. F., A Glow in the Dark. 2005, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England, The Belknap Press, Harvard University Press |
| Zimmer M., Glowing Genes. 2005, Amherst, New York, Prometheus Books |
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