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The brilliant, intrinsic fluorescence of GFP has made it useful to molecular biologists as a non-invasive indicator of gene expression. For example, if you were a genetic engineer who was interested in gene therapy, how would you know that you had successfully introduced the corrective gene into a cell? Well, if the gene encoded GFP, you would know that the gene had been taken up by the cell -- and expressed as protein -- when the cell became fluorescent green. |
Materials and Methods
(above) Preparing plates to select for transformants .
(above) Molecular model of green fluorescent protein.
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