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Genetically modified plants: questions and answers
What can and should genetic technologies be used for?
Margaret Buckingham is a developmental biologist who has transformed our understanding of the formation of the heart and skeletal muscles. Using mouse molecular genetics, she showed how genes for contractile proteins are activated as muscle…
Edith Heard is a geneticist and developmental biologist whose main area of research is understanding X-inactivation in cells, the process by which one X chromosome is switched off in the cells of female mammals. She …
William ‘Bill’ Richardson studies the development and function of cells called oligodendrocytes in the central nervous system. Oligodendrocytes produce myelin to insulate nerve axons, allowing action potentials (electrical impulses) …
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