Board Member Wins Nobel Prize

摘要

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008 has been awarded to Roger Tsien (below right), University of California, San Diego, US, a member of the editorial board for the upcoming RSC journal Integrative Biology (to be launched in January 2009), and colleagues for their work in the development of the gene marker green fluorescent protein (GFP).rnHarp Minhas, editor of Integrative Biology, says: 'Congratulations to Professor Tsien, from all of us at the RSC. We are all immensely pleased that 2008 Nobel Prize winner Roger Tsien is an editorial board member for Integrative Biology; his work typifies the quality of material we are seeking in the development of biology through new tools and technologies.'rnDerivatives of GFP are used in experiments to observerncell dynamics and behaviour - their fluorescent glow allows scientists to visualise processes inside cells.