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BU, Woods Hole researcher wins Nobel in chemistry
A Japanese scientist who works at two Massachusetts research institutions won a share of the Nobel Prize in chemistry today for the discovery of a glowing protein in jellyfish later exploited to study how living cells work.
Osamu Shimomura (left) of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole and Boston University School of Medicine and Americans Martin Chalfie of Columbia University and Roger Tsien of University of California, San Diego were honored for their research on green fluorescent protein, or GFP, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
Here's the Globe story.
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