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Genetically modified plants: questions and answers
What can and should genetic technologies be used for?
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,
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…
Born (1957) and raised in the south of the Netherlands, Clevers studied biochemistry and medicine in Utrecht. After an immunology PhD (1985), he trained as molecular biologist through a 4 year Harvard postdoc. Back in Utrecht (1989), he became
Ben Blencowe is recognized for his contributions to the understanding of alternative splicing, a critical process by which a gene can encode multiple RNA and protein products.
Harland aims to understand early vertebrate development at the molecular level. Major contributions include understanding dorsal ventral patterning of the early embryo, and the induction and patterning of the neural plate.
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