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 Send to email | Fluorescent jellyfish genes earn Nobel Prize for Chemistry in Biology |  By Thoughts
el 09-Oct-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 is active, thus allowing scientists to trace the pattern of gene activation within an organism.
The scientists winning the Prize for developing these techniques:
Osamu Shimomura, 80, an emeritus professor at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., and Boston University Medical School; Martin Chalfie, 61, a professor of biological sciences at Columbia University; and Roger Y. Tsien, 56, a professor of pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego. The technique was first demonstrated in 1994, and by 1997-1998 (when I was in college), the technique had spread to student biology labs. Tsien and other scientists have since widened the color palette available from GFP, both by mutating the gene and by extracting glowing proteins from other species. Read the comments on this post...
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| Fluorescent jellyfish genes earn Nobel Prize for Chemistry | | 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 particu [..] Read complete article | | Published 09-Oct-2008 by Thoughts in Biology
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| Paul Krugman wins a Nobel in Economics | | Due to Sb issues, this post has been sitting unpublished for hours.
Paul Krugman, the New York Times columnist, Princeton economist, and author of textbooks, academic treatises and popularizations of economics, was given this years Nobel Prize in Economics.
Because of his outspoken opposition to the Bush presidency, this decision will inevitably be treated as political, but th [..] Read complete article | | Published 14-Oct-2008 by Thoughts in Policy and Politics
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| How to Make a Presentation Like Al Gore | | Al Gore’s dramatic slide show featured in “An Inconvenient Truth” was awesome enough to win him the Nobel Peace Prize and an Oscar. Let’s see if you can do any better. Nancy Duarte of Duarte Design, the firm behind Gore’s presentation, shares her secrets to creating killer slide shows.
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| HOW TO - diffuse CFLs beautifully |  Here’s a neat instructable by user sjolly which combines compact fluorescent light bulbs with a modular lampshade design. He writes:
We recently installed new compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) in our workspace. They use less energy and last longer, but they’re painfully bright…so I adapted Dan’s Instructable for CFLs using heat resistant photo gels. This custom [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 20-Aug-2008 by Nerdblog in General
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| Home Chemistry at Maker Faire |  We’re very excited about the release of the second in our line of DIY Science books, Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments, by Robert Bruce Thompson. Bob also authored the first title in the series Illustrated Guide to Astronomical Wonders. At Maker Faire, he will be doing demos of lab experiments from the book on [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 01-May-2008 by Nerdblog in General
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| These Are The 2008 PlayStation Award Winners [Sony] | | To acknowledge hit PlayStation platform games, Sony has the "PlayStation Awards." These are given to PlayStation titles that are "hits" in Japan. There are two categories: Gold Prize and Double Platinum Prize. Gold Prize Awards (which were ¥500,000, or US$5,362, [..] Read complete article | | Published 03-Dec-2008 by Brian Ashcraft in Sony News Original Ps2 PS3 PSP
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| Earn $$$ With Fable II Pub Games Bug [Fable II] | | Uh-oh. If Lionhead don't sort this out sharpish then Albion could end up suffering through its own version of the kind of economic meltdown that has lead to Zimbabwe printing a run of billion dollar notes. The novel idea of letting players earn g [..] Read complete article | | Published 18-Aug-2008 by Stuart Houghton in Fable II Bugs Lionhead News Pub games Xbla
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