You probably thought this was going to be about Dr Robert Gallo. Driving in to lab this morning I heard Dan Charles' story on NPR's Morning Edition about the unheralded scientist, Dr Douglas Prasher, who first cloned the green ...
Jonathan Eisen has another important element to this story - the guy who was left out, Douglas Prasher. Martin Chalfie, one of the winners, generously says that the Nobel committee could have left Chalfie out and given the prize to ...
Over the past two days, many have pointed out that the one person left out of the Nobel Prize was Douglas Prasher, researcher who cloned GFP from jellyfish, Aequorea victoria. Sadly, Prasher lost his funding and his lab just after he ...
There is a touching and fascinating story in the Cape Cod Times about Douglas Prasher who used to work at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. In the 1960s he did some of the pioneering work on GFP (the discovery of which was why Osamu ...
Recently Nobel prizes were announced in various categories and GFP protein took the honors in the chemistry department.OSAMU SHIMOMURA, MARTIN CHALFIE, and.