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In 1951 and 1952, Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase conducted a series of experiments at the Carnegie Institute of Washington in Cold Spring Harbor,…
BacteriophagesDNACold Spring Harbor LaboratoryProtein PrecursorsAmino Acid SequenceFrom February 2003 to December 2010, researchers of the Management of Myelomeningocele Study, or MOMS, clinical trial compared the safety and…
MeningomyeloceleSpina Bifida CysticaSpina BifidaNewborn infants--SurgeryHydrocephalusIn 2003, Carmina Gisbert and her research team produced a tobacco plant that could remove lead from soil. To do so, they inserted a gene from wheat…
PhytoremediationtobaccoLeadSoil PollutioncadmiumIn the 1990s, researchers working at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, performed cloning experiments in collaboration with PPL…
CloningChristmas FactorBlood coagulation factor IXRoslin InstituteWilmut, IanGeorge Wells Beadle and Edward Lawrie Tatum's 1941 article Genetic Control of Biochemical Reactions in Neurospora detailed their experiments on how…
GenesGeneticsExperimentsNeurosporaMolecular BiologyDuring the mid-nineteenth century, Johann Gregor Mendel experimented with pea plants to develop a theory of inheritance. In 1843, while a monk in the…
GeneticsPeasLegumesPhenotypePlant breedingIn an effort to develop tissue culture techniques for long-term tissue cultivation, French surgeon and biologist Alexis Carrel, and his associates,…
Carrel, Alexis, 1873-1944Tissue cultureCellsGerm CellsEmbryosIn 2010, a team of US researchers concluded that the more peanuts a pregnant woman ate during her pregnancy, the more likely her newborn was to be…
ExperimentsReproductionPregnancyFetusLeonard Hayflick in the US during the early 1960s showed that normal populations of embryonic cells divide a finite number of times. He published his…
Cell DivisionBiology, ExperimentalCells, CulturedEmbryo Culture Techniquescell agingIn 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