Osamu Shimomura, who shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering and isolating green fluorescent protein, died on October 19 in Nagasaki, Japan. He was 90 years old. The Japan Times ...

The 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry will go to a trio of researchers who discovered, expressed, and developed green fluorescent protein (GFP) and revolutionized the way that biologists visualize living ...

The story of Osamu Shimomura is particularly moving ... Shimomura's discoveries extended to a second fluorescent protein, GFP, which converts one colour of light to another, but it would take ...

Using GFP, researchers have developed ways to watch processes that were previously invisible, like the development of nerve cells or how cancer cells spread. Osamu Shimomura, a Japanese citizen ...