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Genetically modified plants: questions and answers
What can and should genetic technologies be used for?
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…
Ian Hickson is a molecular biologist who studies the processes involved in ageing. Ian has made important discoveries about DNA repair in cells and is known for cloning several bacterial and human DNA repair genes.…
Wolf Reik is a molecular biologist who has made a series of spectacular discoveries relating to the control system — known as epigenetics — that normally ensures the stable expression of our genes. His work revealed that these mechanisms depend
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