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John Gurdon
John Gurdon
English Scientist
Born: Oct 2, 1933
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It is particularly pleasing to see how purely basic research, originally aimed at testing the genetic identity of different cell types in the body, has turned out to have clear human health prospects. John Gurdon
Health Research Types Pleasing Out See Purely Clear Prospects Genetic Particularly Identity How Testing Cell Human Different Turned Human Health Body Originally Basic Basic Research
As a brand new graduate student starting in October 1956, my supervisor Michail Fischberg, a lecturer in the Department of Zoology at Oxford, suggested that I should try to make somatic cell nuclear transplantation work in the South African frog Xenopus laevis. John Gurdon
Work Try Supervisor Student New Make October Lecturer South South African Brand Brand New Department Cell Frog Graduate Graduate Student Oxford African Should Nuclear Suggested Starting Zoology
Nuclear transplantation is a technique that has enormously facilitated the analysis of these interactions between nucleus and cytoplasm. John Gurdon
Analysis Between Interactions Nuclear Technique
There is no doubt that I was blessed with a considerable amount of luck. John Gurdon
Blessed Doubt Luck Considerable No Doubt Amount
Within one year of starting work, I had found that the nucleus of an endoderm cell from an advanced tadpole was able to yield some normal development up to the nuclear transplant tadpole stage. John Gurdon
Work Year Stage Able Some Had Advanced Development Within Normal Up Yield Cell Transplant Found Nuclear Starting
I wondered whether the nuclear transfer techniques could be used to introduce purified macro-molecules into an egg, and hence into embryonic cells. John Gurdon
Introduce Embryonic Purified Could Wondered Egg Cells Transfer Whether Used Hence Nuclear Techniques
For my part, I have worked all my life with eggs and embryos of frogs. Compared to other small animals, these have figured prominently in the world of literature. John Gurdon
Life World My Life Animals Other All My Life Embryos Small Part Eggs Frogs Literature Worked Figured Compared
Shinya Yamanaka's work has involved mice and human cells, and advances the prospect of providing new cells or body parts for patients. John Gurdon
Work Advances Prospect New Involved Parts Providing Mice Cells Human Patients Body
The earliest example known to me of replaced body parts is exemplified by a Mayan skull dating back to 1400 BC. In this skull, false teeth made of stone had been implanted. John Gurdon
Me Made Example Back Teeth Dating Had Known Parts Been False Replaced Stone Body Skull Earliest
I get into lab early and leave a bit early, too. So I like to have an hour or two before everybody comes in. John Gurdon
Before Too Everybody Bit Hour Like Leave Lab Get Early Two
Once the principle is there, that cells have the same genes, my own personal belief is that we will, in the end, understand everything about how cells actually work. John Gurdon
Work Will Own Everything Once About My Own Genes Principle Understand How End Personal Same Cells In The End Belief Actually
There's a danger of some of the best people saying, 'I don't want a career in science.' John Gurdon
Saying Best Science People Danger Some Want Career
If you explain to a patient what can be done and what might be the downsides, let the patient choose; don't have ethicists, priests, or doctors say you may or may not have replacement cells. John Gurdon
You Doctors Patient Say Priests Replacement Done Cells May Explain Might Choose
I must have been born with a strong attraction toward, and possibly even an aptitude for, doing things on a small scale. John Gurdon
Strong Aptitude Scale Possibly Must Born Small Small Scale Toward Attraction Doing Been Even Things
I remember that, at an early age, I spent many months making a three-masted sailing boat with rigging in a half-walnut shell. John Gurdon
Age Remember Months Spent Shell Making Sailing Boat Many Early Early Age
In principle. what is done is to take the nucleus out of a cell with a very fine micro-pipette or needle and introduce it into an egg. That had been done with amphibians a long time ago, and then there was a long pause of many years before people were clever enough to make that work in the sheep. John Gurdon
Work Time People Long Long Time Clever Sheep Before Enough Out Introduce Fine Take Had Long Time Ago Make Principle Were Been Years Very Egg Cell Done Pause Then Many Needle
The aim of a nuclear-transplant experiment is to insert the nucleus of a specialized cell into an unfertilized egg whose nucleus has been removed. John Gurdon
Experiment Aim Has-Been Insert Been Egg Cell Specialized Whose

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