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A Brief History of GFP

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First, Hirata was so impressed with his young student that he granted him a PhD in organic chemistry in 1960. If a single gene could be expressed in any living organism to make this single-unit fluorescent protein, Prasher reasoned, then one could tag almost any gene or protein of interest and follow its progression inside a cell.

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