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Francis Sellers Collins helped lead the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium, which helped describe the DNA sequence of the human genome…
Human Genome ProjectNucleotide sequenceSequence Analysis, DNAGenomeAndrew Zachary Fire is a professor at Stanford University and Nobel Laureate. Fire worked at the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of…
PeopleRNA InterferenceBiographyIn 2003, molecular biology and genetics researchers Coleen T. Murphy, Steven A. McCarroll, Cornelia I. Bargmann, Andrew Fraser, Ravi S. Kamath, Julie…
Caenorhabditis elegansCaenorhabditisInsulin-like growth factor-binding proteinsIGF-Binding ProteinsGenetic regulationBy 2011, researchers in the US had established that non-invasive blood tests can accurately determine the gender of a human fetus as early as seven…
ContextDiagnostic sex determinationSex PreselectionFetusSex Determination AnalysisIn 2007, Françoise Baylis and Jason Scott Robert published “Part-Human Chimeras: Worrying the Facts, Probing the Ethics” in The American Journal of…
LiteratureChimerismNeuronsChimeraGeneticsIn 1995 and 1996, researchers at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, cloned mammals for the first time. Keith Campbell, Jim McWhir, William…
CloningClone CellsCloning, MolecularCloning, OrganismExperimentsLap-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 FibrosisReproductionBiographyHomeobox genes are a cluster of regulatory genes that are spatially and temporally expressed during early embryological development. They are…
Homeobox genesGenes, HomeoboxGeneticsBeatrice Mintz is a brilliant researcher who has developed techniques essential for many aspects of research on mouse development. She produced the…
PeopleBiographyMiceCancerAs of 2022, Trisomy 21 is the most common type of trisomy, or a condition where the person has three instead of the normal two copies of one of the…
Genetic DisordersGenetic disorders in childrenGenetic disorders in pregnancyGenetic disorders--DiagnosisDown syndrome