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Lap-Chee Tsui (1950-)
By: Kristina Winikates
| Published: Nov 10, 2011
Lap-Chee Tsui is a geneticist who discovered the cystic fibrosis (CF) gene, and his research team sequenced human chromosome 7. As the location of…
PeopleTsui, Lap-CheeCystic FibrosisReproductionBiography
Molecular Epigenetics and Development: Histone Conformations, DNA Methylation and Genomic Imprinting
By: Tristan Cooper-Roth
| Published: Sep 28, 2010
Introduced by Conrad Hal Waddington in 1942, the concept of epigenetics gave scientists a new paradigm of thought concerning embryonic development,…
EpigenomicsEpigenetics
The Case of Lydia Fairchild and Her Chimerism (2002)
By: Alexis Darby
| Published: Jun 01, 2021
In 2002, after applying for government assistance in the state of Washington, Lydia Fairchild was told that her two children were not a genetic match…
ChimerismHuman GeneticsForensic geneticsLone twinsPaternity testing
Eric Wieschaus (1947- )
By: May Catherine, Justin M. Wolter
| Published: Apr 29, 2014
Eric Wieschaus studied how genes cause fruit fly larvae to develop in the US and Europe during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Using the…
Drosophila melanogasterGeneticsGenetic Screening
"Human Factor IX Transgenic Sheep Produced by Transfer of Nuclei from Transfected Fetal Fibroblasts" (1997), by Angelika E. Schnieke, et al.
By: Zane Bartlett
| Published: Aug 19, 2014
In the 1990s, researchers working at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, performed cloning experiments in collaboration with PPL…
CloningChristmas FactorBlood coagulation factor IXRoslin InstituteWilmut, Ian
The First Successful Cloning of a Gaur (2000), by Advanced Cell Technology
By: Caroline Appleton
| Published: Jul 26, 2013
Advanced Cell Technology (ACT), a stem cell biotechnology company in Worcester, Massachusetts, showed the potential for cloning to contribute to…
Cell nuclei--TransplantationCloningGaurAdvanced Cell Technology (Firm)Embryos
Using Digital PCR to Detect Fetal Chromosomal Aneuploidy in Maternal Blood (2007)
By: Meilin Zhu
| Published: Nov 08, 2017
In 2007, Dennis Lo and his colleagues used digital polymerase chain reaction or PCR to detect trisomy 21 in maternal blood, validating the method as…
Polymerase chain reactionNucleic Acid Amplification TechniquesDown syndromeDNAAneuploidy
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
Trisomy 18 (Edwards Syndrome)
By: Mark Zhang
| Published: Aug 16, 2011
John Hilton Edwards first described the symptoms of the genetic disorder known as Trisomy 18 - one of the most common forms of trisomy, which occurs…
TrisomyFetusCongenital DisordersHuman Development
Edward B. Lewis (1918-2004)
By: Adam R. Navis
| Published: Nov 11, 2007
Edward B. Lewis studied embryonic development in Drosophila, including the discovery of the cis-trans test for recessive genes, and the…
PeopleDrosophilaBiography