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Mary Lyon: quiet battler
Mary Lyon discovered X-inactivation — the process that enables female mammals to avoid genetic overdose by randomly switching off one X chromosome in each of their cells — some 40 years ago. In the past 20 years, she has received six awards in recognition of this discovery, including the recently announced Wolf Prize in medicine, worth US$ 100,000. At 71, Lyon will use the award to continue her...
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Mary Frances Lyon Mary Lyon was one of the most notable geneticists of the 20th century. She is renowned for her discovery of X inactivation, an early example of epigenetic gene regulation, but she alsomade fundamental contributions to the entire field of genetics. Mary was born on May 15, 1925 in Norwich, in the rural east of the United Kingdom. She was the first child of Clifford James Lyon, ...
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For more than 60 years, Mary Lyon has had an intimate relationship with the house mouse. She has devoted herself to the discovery and description of a wide variety of mutants, arguably as prolific as anyone in the field. She co-edited the mouse bible ‘‘Genetic Variants and Strains of the Laboratory Mouse’’ and untangled the knots in the t-complex. And, in a link with posterity, her last name no...
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I'm worried about my paper. " I had a 25-page seminar paper due in less than two weeks. I'd turned in an eight-page proposal, with an outline and an annotated bibliography, and it had been severely and accurately critiqued by the class the day before. It's spring semester, my first year in graduate school at Indiana University. I'd considered myself a poet—I was getting a Masters in Fine Arts—b...
متن کاملAn appreciation
Qing Zou asked me to contribute some remarks introductory to the book that follows. I have not read it. I have indeed only seen a relatively small number of pages. Moreover, although in the course of my career as a mathematician and, in general, in the course of my life, I have acquired a working knowledge of several languages, Chinese in any of its forms is not one of them. Consequently I have...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Genetics Research
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0016-6723,1469-5073
DOI: 10.1017/s001667230003514x