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Genetically modified plants: questions and answers
What can and should genetic technologies be used for?
Jonathon Pines studies mitosis, the process by which cells divide. Jon serendipitously entered the mitosis field through cloning ‘Cyclin’ with Tim Hunt. Later, as a consequence of cloning human…
Professor Richard Harvey received his PhD in 1982 from the University of Adelaide, training in molecular biology. He undertook postdoctoral studies in embryology at Harvard University with Doug Melton, and then moved to the Walter and Eliza Hall
Pasko Rakic is a neuroscientist who studies brain development. He is recognized for elucidation of the cellular and molecular mechanisms of neuronal proliferation, migration and synaptogenesis during the development of the cerebral cortex. Another
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