Green-Florescent-Protein Gene

Science & Technology, third prize singles

15-12-2000

Scientist Jürgen Bachl observes a genetically manipulated mouse. The four-day-old rodent glows green under specially filtered light. Researchers had injected a green-florescent-protein gene (GFP) from a deep-sea jellyfish into fertilized mouse egg-cells. The GFP spreads through all cells and tissue of the embryo. Scientists hope to use this discovery to further research into cell differentiation and tumor growth.

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Photo Credit: Nicole Ottawa

Nicole Ottawa, a brilliant self-taught photographer was born in 1965 in the city if Leipheim. She completed her bachelors in biology at the Freie University, Berlin. She later moved on to scoring a prestigious internship at the Institute for Scientific Photography and the Schloss Weussenstein 1994 course on ‘scanning electron microscopy’ from the University of Munster.

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