Nüsslein-Volhard
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Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Biology and a nonvoting member of the MPG Senate, is critical of the way the case has played out.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 1, 2022
EMBL's achievements include the Nobel prize awarded to Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Eric Wieschaus in 1995 for their work on early embryonic development.
From Nature • Jul. 8, 2014
The mutants generated by Nüsslein-Volhard and Wieschaus were even more dramatic than the ones described by Lewis.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
In a volley of pathbreaking papers published between 1986 and 1990, Nüsslein-Volhard and her colleagues definitively identified several of the factors that provide the signal for “headness” and “tailness” in the embryo.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The genes altered in these mutants, Nüsslein-Volhard and Wieschaus reasoned, determine the basic architectural plan of the embryo.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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