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Genetically modified plants: questions and answers
What can and should genetic technologies be used for?
Richard Gardner is a developmental biologist who devised techniques for performing microsurgery on mammalian embryos, paving the way to a greater understanding of embryonic development, cell differentiation, and control of the…
Dr Eaves is a British-trained Canadian cancer biologist first recognized for her development of robust functional methods to quantify and characterize distinct types of primitive blood and mammary cell precursors - now considered…
James Briscoe is a senior group leader at the Francis Crick Institute. He obtained a BSc in Microbiology and Virology from the University of Warwick, UK. Following his PhD research in Ian Kerr’s laboratory at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund,
John Dick is leading research into the role of stem cells in human haematopoiesis — formation of cellular blood components — and their role in blood cancers such as acute myeloid leukaemia. Notably, he developed a…
Fiona Watt has explored the role of stem cells in maintaining the skin, which is constantly repaired and replaced throughout our lifetime. She has discovered factors that control how stem…
Michael Rudnicki is a recognized thought leader in stem cell research whose work has transformed our understanding of muscle regeneration. His discovery and characterization of muscle stem…
Janet Rossant is a developmental biologist who uses cellular and genetic techniques to study how genes control the development of early embryos, along with the processes that result in the specialisation of stem…
Andrea Brand studies nervous system development, identifying the genes that direct the specific behaviours of cells in the brain. These cells, neurons and glia, are produced by multipotent precursors called neural…
Austin Smith is a stem cell biologist whose significant discoveries have helped to explain how identical cells in the early embryo are able to differentiate into the hundreds of different…
Elaine Fuchs is renowned for her research in skin biology, its stem cells and associated genetic disorders. She received her PhD in Biochemistry from Princeton. After postdoctoral research at MIT, she joined the…
