He showed that specialized cells retain the genes to form an organism.

Sir John Gurdon, the biologist, who has died aged 92, successfully cloned a tadpole from a single cell in 1962, paving the ...

One of his early teachers called his scientific ambitions “ridiculous.” Undeterred, Dr. Gurdon went on to transform the ...

His work in the manipulation of cells laid the foundation for stem cell biology and regenerative medicine and led to the ...

Larry Mantle talks with Greg Stock, best-selling author, and reproductive biology expert about his new book, Redesigning Humans (Houghton Mifflin). Stock considers how the human race is likely to ...

Experts in cloning and stem cell science are reporting that five lung stem cell variants dominate the lungs of patients with advanced cystic fibrosis, and that these variants drive key aspects of CF ...

A Nobel Laureate biology professor, whose impact on the field led to him being known as the "Godfather" of cloning, has died ...

Nereus Gunther is a molecular biologist at the Agricultural Research Service within the US Department of Agriculture (Washington D.C., USA), where part of his research focuses on Campylobacter and its ...

John Gurdon, considered the godfather of cloning and who shared the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine in 2012, has died ...