Shimomura first noticed green fluorescent protein (GFP) in 1962.

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In the early 1990s, a Columbia professor named Martin Chalfie heard that another researcher, Douglas Prasher, was trying to locate the gene for a green fluorescent protein (GFP) found in jellyfish.

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One of the first stories I was ever really proud of was on the history of green fluorescent protein, or GFP, a glowing protein found in jellyfish that can be used to make living things glow.

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