<p>in chemistry.
[Chemistry</a> 2008](<a href=“http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2008/]Chemistry”>http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2008/)</p>
<p>Phooey. I was rooting for Charles Lieber at Harvard.
[Lieber</a> Research Group](<a href=“http://cmliris.harvard.edu/people/CML.php]Lieber”>http://cmliris.harvard.edu/people/CML.php) </p>
<p>Oh well. There’s always next year. :)</p>
<p>My husband was pleased - he uses those fluorescent proteins to track cancer cells every day.</p>
<p>mathmom - my Significant Other and I were pleased as well. Our long-time collaborators also use GFP-tagged proteins in their work every day.</p>
<p>It’s always amazing to me how powerful the tools of biology have become.</p>
<p>My scientist can beat up your scientists.</p>
<p>;)</p>
<p>Seriously… this is one competition where no matter who wins, everybody wins.</p>
<p>
No - UCSD (Roger Tsien) rules! ;)</p>
<p>So happy to see one of the scientists from the MBL at Woods Hole share the prize. We’ve had a few friends work there through the years and I’m always impressed with the wonderful work they do. Woods Hole is one of my favorite places on Cape Cod and no matter how many times I’ve visited, I still have to include the MBL aquarium on my itinerary every time I go. 
Bravo to all the winners.</p>
<p>I alway enjoy this time of year with the announcements of the Nobel Prizes. I enjoyed hearing Chalfie discuss how he found out he won by looking it up on the internet. Think how times have changed. I bet the first winner found out by telegraph. Tomorrow it is literature and the pundits are picking Claudio Magris of Italy. Never heard of him in my insular world of literature. You wonder who will win the Peace Prize.</p>
<p>GFP is a really great discovery to reward – it genuinely has revolutionized biology.</p>
<p>I also use GFP on a regular basis to label newborn neurons in the embryonic mouse brain.</p>
<p>
yeah - I usually use that also … well, maybe not. :)</p>
<p>It’s tough work to be a mouse brain surgeon. :D</p>
<p>Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (of France) won the 2008 Literature prize.
The 2008 Physics prize was shared for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics.</p>
<p>Did I miss a thread on the Krugman announcement? Couldn’t find one, so I’ll add it here.</p>
<p>[The</a> New York Times > Log In](<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/business/economy/14econ.html?_r=4&scp=1&sq=rampell&st=cse&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin]The”>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/business/economy/14econ.html?_r=4&scp=1&sq=rampell&st=cse&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin)</p>
<p>Here’s a different link, not requiring log in:
[Economics</a> 2008](<a href=“http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2008/]Economics”>http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2008/)</p>
<p>This was all over my school’s paper, and my Biochem-major roommate was so excited that a BU professor won the Nobel prize. Kind of surreal.</p>
<p>[Nation</a> & World | Glowworms do it; now a cat can, too | Seattle Times Newspaper](<a href=“http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008295095_cat22.html]Nation”>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008295095_cat22.html)</p>
<p>No kidding!</p>
<p>^^ I like the name of the cat - Mr. Green Genes.</p>
<p>My lab friends and I have an idea to create a sushi restaurant that would serve fish expressing green fluorescent protein, wrapped in seaweed expressing red fluorescent protein, under blacklights. :D</p>