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Chemistry World
November 2008 |
A glowing green Nobel The molecule that revolutionized and illuminated cell biology started with a jellyfish. Lewis Brindley tells the story of this year's Nobel prize for chemistry   |
Chemistry World
May 26, 2011
Russell Johnson |
Hunting elusive green fluorescent proteins After a 40 year hunt, scientists have tracked down the genes responsible for fluorescent proteins in Obelia medusa - a type of jellyfish. Knowledge of these genes could lead to new fluorescent protein tags for use in cell biology. |
Bio-IT World
February 11, 2005
Kevin Davies |
In Living Color Researchers have developed a palette of fluorescent proteins to complement the green fluorescent protein (GFP), a stable of cell biology for a decade. |
Chemistry World
November 2008
Ananyo Bhattacharya |
Editorial: Competing priorities The UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has been restructuring the way it funds chemistry. It is focusing on funding multi-disciplinary teams in large research programs for longer times. |
Chemistry World
April 26, 2009
Simon Hadlington |
Glowing protein in 'animal photosynthesis' Scientists have discovered that a glowing protein found in some exotic marine animals and used widely as a 'marker' in molecular biology has another remarkable property |
Chemistry World
October 2, 2012
Fiona McKenzie |
Protein sorting within cells US scientists have used magnetic nanoparticles with specific ligands to latch on to and visualize specific proteins in living cells. |
Chemistry World
June 13, 2011
Laura Howes |
Cells turned into living lasers with fluorescent protein With a little help from a fluorescent protein, mammalian cells have been transformed into living lasers. This discovery could help improve imaging of living cells, enabling researchers to explore what's going on inside. |
Chemistry World
November 2009
Bibiana Campos-Seijo |
Editorial: Ringing in the Nobels This year the chemistry prize seems to have once again caused a bit of a commotion. The criticism? Well, some in the scientific community have suggested that the research had too strong a biological focus. |
Chemistry World
July 3, 2015
Michaela Muehlberg |
Fluorescent protein spectrum shunted by single hydrogen bond Scientists in Denmark have found that a single hydrogen bond can have a drastic effect on the photophysical properties of molecular chromophores found in fluorescent proteins. |
Chemistry World
August 24, 2009
Phillip Broadwith |
'Chemical nose' sensor sniffs blood protein profile US scientists have developed a sensor system for profiling the protein content of human blood serum without needing individual receptors for each separate protein. |
Chemistry World
August 17, 2011
Josh Howgego |
Worms Modified to Express Unnatural Amino Acids Unnatural amino acids have been expressed for the first time in complex multicellular organisms. Researchers hope this will open up new ways to track biochemical processes and disease pathways. |
Chemistry World
May 12, 2008
Simon Hadlington |
'Super-yeast' tackles unnatural proteins Researchers in the US have engineered yeast cells to produce large amounts of proteins containing unnatural amino acids (UAAs) - a feat that has previously only been possible with bacteria. |
HHMI Bulletin
Winter 2013
Amber Dance |
A Trick of Light When miniSOG protein takes in blue light, it converts ordinary oxygen into a short-lived, excited state called singlet oxygen, which reacts with and changes the molecules around it. The singlet oxygen destroys the mitochondria's delicate machinery. |
Bio-IT World
July 15, 2003
Julia Boguslavsky |
'Fingerprinting' a Single Cell Single-cell proteomics is finally within reach, thanks to a professor of analytical chemistry. |
Chemistry World
October 23, 2014 |
The resolution revolution Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy earned three of its creators a Nobel prize this year. |
Chemistry World
October 7, 2015 |
Live blog: Unravelling DNA repair mechanisms takes chemistry Nobel Our live blog explains the vital statistics of the Nobel chemistry prize and the countdown to the award announcement. |
Reactive Reports
May 2007
David Bradley |
A Scent for Explosives A new type of biosensor based on yeast, jellyfish proteins, and a rat's sense of smell could sniff out explosives, landmines, and agents, such as sarin gas, according to researchers. |
