Glowing Jellyfish Wins Scientists Nobel Prize

Three Scientists who researched the mysterious green glow of a jellyfish earned the Nobel Prize for Chemistry this year. Osamu Shimomura of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole Massachusetts; Martin Chalfie of Columbia University; and last but not least Roger Tsien of the University of California in San Diego were these men. They earned the prize for their discovery and development of a green fluorescent protein aka GFP. Since each of them contributed in the discovery each one of them will receive a third of the prize. This protein was observed in 1962 from a crystal jellyfish which drifts in currents off the west coast of North America. The protein has become very important in contemporary bioscience. Using the protein scientists have created ways to watch processes that were previously invisible, such as the development of nerve cells or watch how cancer cells spread.

I believe that this breakthrough can lead to many solutions to problems such as cancer. For example, since the GFP can lets scientists watch the way cancer cells spread, we can stop it by stopping the cells spreading. If someone knows how it will spread, we see the weakness or a way to stop it. These men deserve the prize and they should be very proud.

Here is where I got the article
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/10/08/nobel.chemistry/