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Genetically modified plants: questions and answers
What can and should genetic technologies be used for?
James ‘Jim’ Till is a biophysicist who collaborated with haematologist Ernest McCulloch on research that led to proof of the existence of stem cells. These primitive cells can evolve into…
Robin Franklin is a stem cell and regeneration biologist who is currently a Principal Investigator at Altos Labs Cambridge Institute having previously been Professor of Stem Cell…
John Owen conducted pioneering work on lymphocyte development in the vertebrate immune system. By using cell marker techniques, he showed that T and B cells derive from stem cells…
Gail Roberta Martin is a professor emerita in the Department of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco. She is known for her pioneering work on the isolation from normal mouse embryos of pluripotent stem…
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…
Jane Visvader is a molecular and cellular biologist who leads research on mammary stem cell biology and mechanisms resulting in breast cancer. She received her PhD from the University of Adelaide and undertook…
Ian Wilmut was an embryologist who famously led the team that successfully cloned 'Dolly the sheep' in the mid-1990s. To achieve this technical feat, the team established a technique for transferring nuclei from adult sheep cells to …
Brigid Hogan pioneered techniques for exploring the molecular and genetic basis of embryonic development and patterning in the mouse. Using transgenic and gene-targeted mouse lines, tissue transplantation, and in vitro culture techniques, her lab
Martin Evans was the first researcher to isolate and culture embryonic stem (ES) cells, a seminal discovery for which he jointly received the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Martin subsequently showed…
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
