Sentences with phrase «jellyfish protein»

Laureates Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien used a colorful jellyfish protein to reveal the inner workings of cells

* She combined a marker — a gene for a jellyfish protein that fluoresces green — with a DNA sequence that turns on the green fluorescent protein in the presence of thyroid hormones.

This gene is associated with cytokinin responses within the plant cells and is fused with a jellyfish protein that glows green when turned on.

The root fluoresces green when the TCSn gene associated with cytokinin activation is turned on because it is fused with a jellyfish protein that acts as a reporter signal.

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This triggers the production of a colourful substance such as the protein that gives jellyfish a green glow.

The three researchers were sharing the $ 1.4 million award for the development of green fluorescent protein (GFP), a molecule that makes certain jellyfish glow.

To trace individual neurons, Jeff Lichtman of Harvard uses engineered mice whose DNA includes jellyfish genes so that the cells contain fluorescent proteins.

A scientist supported by the NSF was the first to isolate the green fluorescent protein (GFP) in the jellyfish Aequorea victoria.

The target fragment binds to a gene switch in the DNA, which triggers the production of a colourful substance such as the protein that gives jellyfish a green glow under ultraviolet light, or proteins from bacteria that produce colour changes visible to the naked eye.

Enhanced green fluorescent protein, or EGFP, was first discovered in jellyfish and is what gives these sea creatures their bright luminescence.

The key to Gather and Yun's biolaser is green fluorescent protein (GFP), a molecule that has proved endlessly useful to biologists since its discovery in the jellyfish Aequorea victoria in the early 1960s, partly because living cells can be so easily programmed to produce it.

Douglas Youvan and his colleagues at the Palo Alto Institute of Molecular Medicine in Mountain View, California, are working with artificial variants of «green fluorescent protein», the chemical that makes the jellyfish Aequorea Victoria glow.

«The protein found in jellyfish is excited by blue or violet light of 390 nanometres, and shines with a green glow,» says Youvan.

Proteins from jellyfish and corals that fluoresce in the visible wavelength range have revolutionized optical imaging of cells.

Visibly fluorescent proteins (FPs) from jellyfish and corals have revolutionized many areas of molecular and cell biology, but the use of FPs in intact animals, such as mice, has been handicapped by poor penetration of excitation light.

In these images the horizontal green lines (dendrites marked with jellyfish green fluorescent protein) are each about 1 / 50ththe width of a human hair.

«The discovery of green fluorescent protein in a hydrozoan jellyfish in the 1960s has provided a revolutionary tool for modern biologists, transforming our study of everything from the AIDS virus to the workings of the brain,» Gruber said.

The plants» sky - blue glow comes from a protein called aequorin which a type of jellyfish called Aequorea victoria manufactures naturally.

These neurons from the hippocampus of a mouse were genetically altered with fluorescent proteins from jellyfish to create about 90 shades of color.

Green fluorescent protein (GFP) was first collected from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria off the western coast of North America and has revolutionized cellular biology since its discovery.

Invaluable as markers for monitoring photosynthesis and other energy - related processes in living cells, green fluorescent proteins (GFPs), discovered in a species of jellyfish, are vital in extremely high - resolution imaging studies.

Masaru Okabe, a biologist at Osaka University in Japan, engineered these green mice by injecting into mouse embryos a jellyfish gene that codes for a glowing protein called green fluorescent protein.

He started studying bioluminescence in 1961, which lead to the isolation of Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) from these jellyfish.

Fluorescent or glowing proteins, which are substantial to molecular biology today, were developed from research interest in the phenomenon of glowing marine organisms, such as Aequorea aequorea (a jellyfish) or Noctiluca scintillans (a dinoflagellate).

[Engineer Helene Steiner] has developed a bio-pixel display that can play games such as Tetris, Snake or Pong using the protein that makes jellyfish glow

From the seven resulting proteins, they chose three with low levels of both fluorescence and sequence overlap (coral mOrange2, jellyfish EGFP, and sea anemone mKate2.)

When these sheep were born in October 2012, scientists at the Animal Reproductive Institute of Uruguay immediately injected them with a green protein found in the Aequorea Victoria jellyfish.

In a jellyfish, that source is the aequorin protein, which transfers its blue light to GFP by a quantum process that some scientists compare to mind - reading — unlike sound waves, energy moves from one molecule to the other in the absence of any medium.

This unnatural sheen is caused by the Northwest Pacific jellyfish Aequorea victoria, whose cellular makeup includes a bioluminescent protein called aequorin that a emits a deep blue light.

The most commonly used fluorescent protein is green fluorescent protein (GFP), which was isolated first from jellyfish.

In December 2016, Zayner created a fluorescent beer by engineering yeast to contain the green fluorescent protein from jellyfish.

The technology revolves around the protein «apoaequorin», a protein originally found in a specific species of jellyfish, (Aequoria victoria).

A gene for green fluorescent protein from the jellyfish, Aequorea Victoria, has been inserted into the cats» DNA and is used as a marker for cells carrying a second gene which confers resistance to the feline version of the AIDS virus, the Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV).

Jellyfish Warehouse also offers a dry food, Jellyfuel, that is high in protein and fats specialized to the jellyfish diet, and Sunset Marine Labs offers a frozen formula as an alternative to hatching baby brine shrimp in the Jellyfish Warehouse also offers a dry food, Jellyfuel, that is high in protein and fats specialized to the jellyfish diet, and Sunset Marine Labs offers a frozen formula as an alternative to hatching baby brine shrimp in the jellyfish diet, and Sunset Marine Labs offers a frozen formula as an alternative to hatching baby brine shrimp in the aquarium.

Another jellyfish - derived product takes advantage of the jellies» fluorescent protein, and could be used to power medical devices in the future.