Futures in Biotech 37

Our guest is Marty Chalfie, 2008 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

This episode covers how Marty Chalfie discovered the molecular machinery that senses touch. In Part II, Chalfie describes how he developed one of the most important tools of modern molecular biology, one that allows us to see inside a living cells, down to the protein level. With green fluorescent protein, or GFP, we can now track the life of a protein, from when the gene that makes the protein is turned on, to where it goes, to where it dies.

Audible Pick: The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories, Abridged, By Ernest Hemingway, Narrated by Stacy Keach.

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Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.

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