Futures in Biotech 38: It IS Easy Being Green!

Talking green fluorescent protein with Dr. Martin Chalfie, 2008 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry...

Host: Dr. Marc Pelletier
Guest Host: Dr. Glen Ernstrom

Guest:Dr. Martin Chalfie; Professor and Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences, Colombia University, New York, NY.

Here is Part II with Martin Chalfie, 2008 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. In this episode, he describes how he figured out that he could use the protein that causes a jellyfish to glow in the dark as a molecular tag, allowing us to track the life of a protein in a living cell. This is one of the most important tools in molecular biology, kind of at the scale of when Galileo invented the telescope ; ) Now we can watch the birth and movement of living proteins...

Some interesting links:
2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Interview with Awardees

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