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Genetically modified plants: questions and answers
What can and should genetic technologies be used for?
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…
Helen Saibil is a molecular biologist who uses three-dimensional electron microscopy to examine the cellular machines that carry out the functions of life. Her work has resulted in the remarkable visualisation of both molecular chaperones —
Robert Martienssen has made major discoveries relating to the way plants control the expression of their genes. Working with maize, yeast and the weed Arabidopsis, he focuses on the chemical modifications to DNA that determine which genes are active
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