This process has yielded optimized versions of many important proteins, including green fluorescent protein (GFP). However ... allow researchers to measure neuron activity without using electrodes.

“That indicated there must be some kind of coupling,” Morin said. Shimomura continued to study GFP and identified its chromophore in 1979. 4 Ultimately, though, he returned to studying bioluminescence ...

I am using BAC transgenic embryonic stem cells that specifically express GFP in spinal motor neurons to characterize their biology and transplantation potential to investigate motor neuron pathology ...