Clinical and tissue culture responses to chemotherapy
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Nerve Growth Stimulating Factor is isolated, paving the way for important medical advancements
Barbara McClintock
Transposons: Genes that can move
Emmett Chappelle
Development of laser-induced fluorescence methods for determining plant stress and differentiating species
Ruth Sager
The gene SIATL-1 encoding a new sialyltransferase (STM) is down regulated or absent in breast cancer tumor cells
Martha Chase
The infection of E. coli with T2 bacteriophages to prove that DNA rather than protein is the hereditary molecule
Janet Rowley
Chromosomal translocation can cause leukemia
Mary Frances Lyon
Observation of X chromosome inactivation using mice
Dr. Sydney Brenner
The degenerate, universal genetic code determines that each amino acid is dictated by a set of three nucleotides, proving it is impossible to code for amino acids with overlapping triplets
Edith Rebecca Saunders
Discontinuous variation occurring in Biscutella laevigata