Chemist no. 190 of 350 · Biochemistry
Roger Tsien
1952-2016United StatesNobel Chemistry 2008
Engineered fluorescent proteins and calcium probes
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Roger Tsien: Painting Cells with a Palette of Fluorescent Molecules
How Roger Tsien engineered GFP into a palette of fluorescent proteins and invented calcium dyes like BAPTA and Fura-2. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008 explained.
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Roger Tsien: The Chemist Who Gave Cells Their Colours
Life of Roger Y. Tsien (1952-2016), American chemist who engineered fluorescent proteins and calcium dyes and shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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