It has been over 60 years since Osamu Shimomura et al. discovered Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)1. Since then, the color ...

Many avoided the work because it was considered difficult and unpredictable. Plus, it probably didn’t seem relevant to humans. That is until Japanese chemist Osamu Shimomura isolated it in 1956.

Discover the significance of C. elegans in biological research, from Nobel Prize-winning discoveries to insights into gene expression control.

Today the sight attracts tourists. A species of jellyfish displays brilliant green bioluminescence. In 1961, the biochemist Osamu Shimomura found that when he extracted the active components, the ...

(AP pic) It was supposed to be another day of work for 16-year-old Osamu Shimomura when he saw US bombers in the skies above Nagasaki.

In 1961 researcher Osamu Shimomura of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts noticed a molecule in this jellyfish that glowed bright green under ultraviolet light (as pictured). After ...

Nagoya University physiologists have furthered understanding of the bird neural circuitry that allows them to distinguish where a specific sound is coming from. Their findings, published in the ...

Arase satellite uncovers coupling between plasma waves and charged particles in Geospace Scientists unravel a bit more of the mystery underlying how wave-particle interactions generate other ...

Gas giant planets, such as Jupiter, can form rapidly by incorporating nearby icy bodies made from drifting pebbles born in the outer parts of young planetary systems – all in a period of about ...