Profile: Mary-Claire King
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Evidence Is Evidence: An Interview with Mary-Claire King
I often have one eye on the PBS NewsHour when I’m preparing dinner, but whenever the subject turns to the Supreme Court, I snap to full attention. I love the NewsHour’s Marcia Coyle who, like her equally engaging counterpart Nina Totenberg on National Public Radio, bears witness to the Court’s exertions and delights in sharing them with us. In an age of 24/7 tweets and Snapchats, courtroom draw...
متن کاملProfile of Mary-Claire King, 2014 Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement in Medical Science awardee.
On September 19, 2014, Mary-Claire King received the 2014 Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science given for exceptional leadership and citizenship in biomedical science. Her citation read: “For bold, imaginative, and diverse contributions to medical science and human rights — she discovered the BRCA1 gene locus that causes hereditary breast cancer and deployed DNA strategie...
متن کاملPioneering geneticist Mary-Claire King receives the 2014 Lasker~Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science.
The 2014 Lasker~Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science has been awarded to Dr. Mary-Claire King, a pioneer in human genetics (Figure 1). Dr. King discovered the BRCA1 gene locus that underlies hereditary breast cancer; additionally, she has been instrumental in utilizing DNA sequencing to identify missing persons. In her address to the American Society for Human Genetics in 2012,...
متن کاملProfile of King-Wai Yau.
Neuroscientist King-Wai Yau of Johns Hopkins University has made fundamental discoveries concerning the mechanisms underlying sensory transduction. His research over the past four decades has focused primarily on vision. “Vision is one of our most precious senses from which come art, science, humanity, beauty, and practically all aspects of life,” says Yau. His findings concerning phototransduc...
متن کاملClaire Walczak
favourite plants. Linnaeus’s affection for it has been well documented: he used it as a mattress and cover when he slept in woods during his journeys across Sweden. This month also sees the opening of a new exhibition to celebrate Linnaeus at the Natural History Museum, Systema Metropolis, exploring the unseen wildlife in London from a number of sites. Created by the US artist, Mark Dion, it re...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature Medicine
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1078-8956,1546-170X
DOI: 10.1038/nm0603-633