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Barbara McClintock's Transposon Experiments in Maize (1931–1951)
By: Federica Turriziani Colonna
| Published: Feb 09, 2017
Barbara McClintock conducted experiments on corn (Zea mays) in the United States in the mid-twentieth century to study the structure and function of…
TransposonsCornCytogeneticsChromosomesGenetics
Conrad Hal Waddington (1905-1975)
By: Adam R. Navis
| Published: Nov 08, 2007
Conrad Hal Waddington was an embryologist and theoretical biologist. His early experimental work investigated aspects of embryonic induction and the…
EpigenomicsEpigeneticsBiography
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
Epigenetic Landscape
By: Adam R. Navis
| Published: Oct 30, 2007
The epigenetic landscape is a concept representing embryonic development. It was proposed by Conrad Hal Waddington to illustrate the various…
Waddington, C. H. (Conrad Hal), 1905-1975EpigeneticsCell differentiationEmbryologyDevelopmental Biology