Word: volhard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ptashne says that Nusslem Volhard's work on the development of front fly embryos shows that many of the complicated patterns of gene regulation during development can be understood in terms of the Lambda mechanism...
Americans Edward Lewis and Eric Wieschaus will share the $1 million Nobel Prize in Medicine with German Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard. The three were recognized for work on genetic studies that could help explain birth defects and miscarriages. All three used that classroom staple, the fruit fly, as the basis of their experiments. "They found the genetic master control system for taking a fertilized egg and turning it into a fruit fly embryo," says medical writer Christine Gorman. Because the system exists in other species, she adds, "it explains a lot about the development of human embryos as well...
...Nusslein-Volhard, the director of genetics at the Max Planck Institute, has done groundbreaking research on the embryos of fruit flies...
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard...
...work has offered new insight into different elements of modern developmental biology. In an October 1991 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Nusslein-Volhard wrote that she and other researchers at the institute discovered many of the genes in the fruit fly embryos that affect the ultimate form...