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Charles Robert Cantor (1942- )
By: Alexis Abboud
| Published: Jun 11, 2015
Charles Robert Cantor helped sequence the human genome, and he developed methods to non-invasively determine the genes in human fetuses. Cantor…
Human Genome ProjectDNAfetal developmentFetusEmbryos
The Y-Chromosome in Animals
By: Dorothy R. Haskett
| Published: May 28, 2015
The Y-chromosome is one of a pair of chromosomes that determine the genetic sex of individuals in mammals, some insects, and some plants. In the…
Y ChromosomeSex ChromosomesEmbryosDNAChromosomes
The Genetic Control and Cytoplasmic Expression of 'Inducibility' in the synthesis of B-galactosidase" (1959), by Arthur B. Pardee, Francois Jacob, and Jacques Monod
By: Abhinav Mishra
| Published: May 28, 2015
Between 1957 and 1959, Arthur Pardee, Francois Jacob, and Jacques Monod conducted a set of experiments at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France,…
Genetic transformationGenetic recombinationEnzyme KineticsMessenger RNANobel Prize winners
Carol Widney Greider (1961-)
By: Zane Bartlett
| Published: Jan 26, 2015
Carol Widney Greider studied telomeres and telomerase in the US at the turn of the twenty-first century. She worked primarily at the University of…
Greider, Carol W.Women Nobel Prize winnersNobel Prize winnersTelomeraseTelomere
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy
By: Federica Turriziani Colonna
| Published: Dec 22, 2014
The Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (Anton Dohrn Zoological Station) is a public research institute focusing on biology and biodiversity. Hereafter…
OrganizationStazione zoologica di NapoliDevelopmental BiologyZoologyEmbryology
Walter Jakob Gehring (1939-2014)
By: Joe Brinkman
| Published: Dec 22, 2014
Walter Jakob Gehring discovered the homeobox, a DNA segment found in a specific cluster of genes that determine the body plan of animals, plants, and…
Homeobox genesDrosophilaGeneticsGenesGenes, Homeobox
Theophilus Shickel
Painter (1889-1969)
By: Dorothy Haskett
| Published: Nov 22, 2014
Theophilus Shickel Painter studied the structure and function of chromosomes in the US during in the early to mid-twentieth century. Painter worked…
ChromosomesKaryotypesSex ChromosomesGeneticsLinkage (Genetics)
The Pasteur Institute (1887- )
By: Valerie Racine
| Published: Aug 19, 2014
L'Institut Pasteur (The Pasteur Institute) is a non-profit private research institution founded by Louis Pasteur on 4 June 1887 in Paris, France. The…
OrganizationBacteriaGenetic regulationOperonsMolecular genetics
Beadle and Ephrussi's Transplantation Technique for Drosophila
By: Divyash Chhetri
| Published: Jun 29, 2014
Boris Ephrussi and George Wells Beadle developed a transplantation technique on flies, Drosophila melanogaster, which they described in their 1936…
TechnologyTissue ExtractsGenesTransplantation of organs, tissues, etc.Tissue Transplantation
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