The recent findings of Waldo et al. 1 demonstrate that the fusion of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) to insoluble proteins dramatically reduces its folding ability in prokaryotic cells.

For the next two decades, GFP remained just an interesting luminescent protein found in some species of marine animals. In 1989, scientists studied genes of interest in cells using newly developed ...

Engineers and biologists at Dartmouth College have found that, just like word order affects meaning in a sentence, the ...

This study has examined the utility of a marker that is rapidly becoming a powerful tool in hematopoietic cell-directed gene therapy. The GFP marker significantly enhances the ability to track and ...

A team of researchers led by Dr. KIM V. Narry, director of the Center for RNA Research at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), has uncovered a key cellular mechanism that affects the function of ...

Engineers have made bacteria to produce hyperspectral signals that can be detected as far as 90 meters away. Their work could lead to the development of bacterial sensors for agricultural and other ...

Researchers suggest the bacteria could be designed to detect pollution or nutrients, acting as sensors to help farmers ...

Some infected cells harbor HIV-1 provirus that remains latent ... a feat not possible with GFP before, allowing for analysis of the complex nature of HIV-1 latency by revealing real-time dynamics ...