Fluorescent Protein Research Lands Scientists Nobel Prize

Iddo Genuth writes "The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced three recipients of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry award for 2008: jointly given to Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien 'for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP' — a remarkable brightly glowing green fluorescent protein first observed in the beautiful jellyfish, Aequorea victoria, in 1962."

Re:Damn!

[megamerican]

I thought my BBQ sauce was going to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry :(

Everyone knows that BBQ sauce goes under the peace category.

I know who should really get the peace prize.

[Anonymous Coward]

The guy who made dynamite, sure on the surface it doesn't sound all the peaceful, but just hang in there. If he hadn't invented dynamite we would have no way to measure explosive's power. We would have all died in the cold war:

Mr President guy: Our Nuclear weapons are very strong.

Advisor: How strong are they?

Mr President guy: I don't know, if only we had a way to measure the power of explosives. Oh well I guess the only way to check is to use them.

Advisor: Test them eh? But where?

Mr President guy: I know! Lets test them on Moscow!

Boom we're all dead.

Re:Well....

[MyLongNickName]

You're not even trying, are you?

Actually, he is very trying.

Re:Damn!

[$RANDOMLUSER]

I think you're wrong. BBQ sauce has started almost as many wars as Perl.

Re:Green Eggs and Ham

[morgan_greywolf]

so i guess it evens out, and besides, there's no price for biologists

Cool! Biologists are free as in beer! Can I have 10, please? Oh, and can you make them female? And cute, too.

Re:Well....

[morgan_greywolf]

Whose a 'newbie'? I remember Slashdot before it even had moderation. Or user accounts.

Now get off my lawn.

don't give them the money

[sgt scrub]

Hold onto the cash until they successfully splice it into the mosquito's DNA. Glowing mosquito == dead mosquito!

Re:Good for them!

[camperdave]

The questions remaining: Can they get blue as well as green and red? Can they be injected into skin cells? Can the glow be controlled by the nervous system? Which tattoo parlour can give me my glow in the dark thought controlled, full color tattoo?

Re:Good for them!

[Fast Thick Pants]

I can't help wondering what form of currency I'll be slipping into the straps of fluorescent Korean strippers in 20 years.