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Genetically modified plants: questions and answers
What can and should genetic technologies be used for?
François Guillemot investigates the mechanisms that regulate the behaviour of neural stem cells. He has identified transcription factors that induce neuronal programmes in neural stem…
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…
Raymond Lund is an anatomist who uncovered the fine detail of sensory pathways in the brains of mammals. He was the first to demonstrate that transplants of neural cells can rewire into the recipient’s brain, leading to his…
Benjamin Simons is a theorist who has contributed to a broad range of fields, from quantum condensed matter physics to developmental biology. With a focus on experimental phenomenology, his research makes use of concepts and approaches from
Nick Hastie’s observations on the physiological impact of genetic variants have revealed new mechanisms underlying the control of development and the maintenance of adult stem cells. He was the first to characterise …
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
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.…
Michael Dexter’s work focuses on the control of blood cell formation and the mechanisms leading to leukaemia development. He pioneered the development of long-term culture techniques for haematopoietic stem and…
John Gurdon is a Nobel Prize-winning developmental biologist who performed pioneering research on nuclear transplantation and cloning. In his seminal experiment, John replaced the nucleus of a frog egg with the nucleus of a mature…
Jean Beggs is a geneticist whose development of a shuttle vector for propagating genes in both the bacterium Escherichia coli and budding yeast allowed highly efficient gene cloning in yeast and helped to pave the way for the…
