Next project on the list, that's been waiting in the wings since the summer.
I work on a nematode called C. elegans, which is very cool in many ways, but one of the best (and Nobel prize winning) tricks it has is that you can make transgenic worms which glow green. Not just for fun, but also to see where genes are expressed or how proteins are being regulated. The thing that makes them glow green is a protein called Green Fluorescent Protein, GFP for short, which was discovered in a jelly...
Multicolour Led Light For Fluorescence Microscope
I work on a nematode called C. elegans, which is very cool in many ways, but one of the best (and Nobel prize winning) tricks it has is that you can make transgenic worms which glow green. Not just for fun, but also to see where genes are expressed or how proteins are being regulated. The thing that makes them glow green is a protein called Green Fluorescent Protein, GFP for short, which was discovered in a jelly...
Multicolour Led Light For Fluorescence Microscope