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By: Adam R. Navis | Published: Jan 21, 2009

Beatrice Mintz is a brilliant researcher who has developed techniques essential for many aspects of research on mouse development. She produced the…

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…

By: Adam R. Navis | Published: Nov 08, 2007

Viktor Hamburger was an embryologist who focused on neural development. His scientific career stretched from the early 1920s as a student of Hans…

By: Adam R. Navis | Published: Nov 08, 2007

Rita Levi-Montalcini is a Nobel Laureate recognized for her work in the discovery and characterization of nerve growth factor. Nerve growth factor (…

By: Adam R. Navis | Published: Nov 08, 2007

Robert William Briggs was a prolific developmental biologist. However, he is most identified with the first successful cloning of a frog by nuclear…

By: Adam R. Navis | Published: Nov 01, 2007

Joseph Needham was an embryologist and biochemist who is most noted in science for his studies on induction in developing embryos. Needham worked…

By: Adam R. Navis | Published: Nov 01, 2007

Samuel Randall Detwiler was an embryologist who studied neural development in embryos and vertebrate retinas. He discovered evidence for the…

By: Adam R. Navis | Published: Nov 01, 2007

Stanley Cohen is a biochemist who participated in the discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF) and epidermal growth factor (EGF). He shared the 1986…