, 2 Americans win Nobel chemistry prize
By KARL RITTER and MATT MOORE (Associated Press Writers)
From Associated Press
October 08, 2008 5:44 AM EDT
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Two Americans and a U.S.-based Japanese scientist won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for their discovery and development of a protein that literally illuminates key processes such as the spread of cancer inside living organisms.

Japan's Osamu Shimomura and Americans Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien shared the prize for their work on green fluorescent protein, or GFP, which was first found in a jellyfish, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.

It's widely used to track such processes as the development of brain cells, the growth of bacteria or development of disease.

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