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Barbara McClintock (1902-1992)
By: Federica Turriziani Colonna
| Published: Jul 05, 2014
Barbara McClintock worked on genetics in corn (maize) plants and spent most of her life conducting research at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in…
McClintock, Barbara, 1902-1992ChromosomesTransposonsCornDNA Transposable Elements
Walter Stanborough Sutton (1877-1916)
By: Abhinav Mishra
| Published: Jun 27, 2014
Walter Stanborough Sutton studied grasshoppers and connected the phenomena of meiosis, segregation, and independent assortment with the chromosomal…
ChromosomesHeredityBoveri, Theodor, 1862-1915Wilson, Edmund B. (Edmund Beecher), 1856-1939Genetics
"Male Development of Chromosomally Female Mice Transgenic for Sry gene" (1991), by Peter Koopman, et al.
By: Troy Cox
| Published: Jan 28, 2014
Early 1990s research conducted by Peter Koopman, John Gubbay, Nigel Vivian, Peter Goodfellow, and Robin Lovell-Badge, showed that chromosomally…
Y ChromosomeTestisEmbryosChromosomesSex Chromosomes
"Genetic Evidence Equating SRY and the Testis-Determining Factor" (1990), by Phillippe Berta et al.
By: Troy Cox
| Published: Jan 10, 2014
In the late 1980s, Peter Goodfellow in London, UK led a team of researchers who showed that the SRY gene in humans codes a protein that causes testes…
TestisY ChromosomeEmbryosChromosomesSex Chromosomes
Sex-determining Region Y in Mammals
By: Troy Cox
| Published: Dec 31, 2013
The Sex-determining Region Y (Sry in mammals but SRY in humans) is a gene found on Y chromosomes that leads to the development of male phenotypes,…
Y ChromosomeTestisEmbryosChromosomesSex Chromosomes
Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920-1958)
By: Lindsey O'Connell
| Published: Nov 17, 2013
Rosalind Elsie Franklin worked with X-ray crystallography at King's College London, UK, and she helped determine the helical structure of DNA in the…
PeopleDNAX-Ray CrystallographyMolecular geneticsMolecular Biology
Francis Harry Compton Crick (1916-2004)
By: Amanda Andrei
| Published: Nov 01, 2013
Francis Harry Compton Crick, who co-discovered the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in 1953 in Cambridge, England, also developed The Central…
DNAChromosomesNucleotide sequenceNucleic AcidsMolecular Biology
Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856-1939)
By: Jane Maienschein
| Published: Aug 05, 2013
Edmund Beecher Wilson contributed to cell biology, the study of cells, in the US during the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth…
EmbryologyCellsCytologyHeredityEvolution
The Role of the Notch Signaling Pathway in Myogenesis
By: Justin M. Wolter
| Published: Jul 26, 2013
Among other functions, the Notch signaling pathway forestalls the process of myogenesis in animals. The Notch signaling pathway is a pathway in…
MyogenesisNotch genesNotch ProteinsMusclesMyoblasts
Julia Bell (1879-1979)
By: Jesse King
| Published: Dec 27, 2012
Julia Bell worked in twentieth-century Britain, discovered Fragile X Syndrome, and helped find heritable elements of other developmental and genetic…
Genetic Disordersfetal developmentRubella in pregnancyRubella virusHeredity