# Further reading

This is a press release for the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP:

The Nobel Prize (2008) ‘The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2008 jointly to Osamu Shimomura, Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, MA, USA and Boston University Medical School, MA, USA, Martin Chalfie, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA and Roger Y. Tsien, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA “for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP”’, 8 October [Press release]. Available at: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2008/press-release/ (Accessed: 10 February 2023).

This article describes fluorescence imaging techniques in 3D tissues and organisms and is the source for some of the videos shown in Video 1 ‘Journey into a cell’.

Liu, T.-L., Upadhyayula, S., Milkie, D.E., Singh, V., Wang, K., Swinburne, I.A., Mosaliganti, K.R., Collins, Z.M. et al. (2018) ‘Observing the cell in its native state: Imaging subcellular dynamics in multicellular organisms’,Science, 360(6386), eaaq1392. Available at: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaq1392 (Accessed: 10 September 2025).

OpenLearn - Exploring cells with digital fluorescence microscopy
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