Humans have been selectively breeding cats and dogs for thousands of years to make more desirable pets. A new startup called the Los Angeles Project aims to speed up that process with genetic ...

but contains the blueprint for a previously unknown type of green fluorescent protein. In nature, green fluorescent proteins give fluorescent jellyfish and corals their glow. The sequence of ...

Recruitment of the readily available GFP to the tagged transcription factor therefore causes the nuclei containing the factor to glow brightly (bottom).

Chalfie asked whether the cloned gene could be expressed in another organism, while Tsien saw long-term potential in making GFP glow brighter so it could be used as an all-purpose biological reporter.

a glowing anemone whose tentacles contain a novel fluorescent protein. Green fluorescent protein (GFP), which was first isolated in the 1960s from a crystal jelly (Aequorea victoria), has become ...

Taking a risk on error-prone PCR, Euskirchen amplified only the GFP coding sequence and inserted it into an expression vector to transform back into E. coli. When Euskirchen imaged her bacteria using ...