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3 unusual facts about Molecular Genetics


Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute

The Institute comprises 11 Departments: Biomedical Engineering, Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Genomic Medicine Institute, Immunology, Molecular Cardiology, Molecular Genetics (including the Section of Virology), Neurosciences, Pathobiology, Quantitative Health Sciences, and Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine.

Margarita Salas

Margarita Salas Falgueras, 1st Marquise of Canero (born 1938), commonly known as Margarita Salas, is a well-known Spanish scientist in the fields of Biochemistry, and Molecular genetics.

University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro

Technology and Comparative Molecular Genetics (Genética Molecular Comparativa e Tecnológica)


Huda Zoghbi

Her residency as a neurological pediatrician brought Rett syndrome to her attention, and she learned molecular genetics from Arthur Beaudet in order to do research on Rett's and other genetic neurological disorders.

Kate Charlton-Robb

Kate Charlton-Robb, born in Mornington Peninsula is an Australian zoologist, molecular genetist, researcher of Monash University, who, along with colleagues, declared in 2011 a new species of Tursiops genera, and formally named Tursiops australis.

Nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome

Recent work in molecular genetics has shown NBCCS to be caused by mutations in the PTCH (Patched) gene found on chromosome arm 9q.

W. Ian Lipkin

He began as Assistant Professor in the departments of Neurology, Anatomy and Neurobiology, and Microbiology and Molecular Genetics.


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Arturo Falaschi

He was coordinator of the Graduate School of Molecular Genetics, International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste (1988 to 2001) and Professor of Molecular Biology, Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS), Pisa, Italy from 2004 to his last breath.

Asuncion Raymundo

Later on she got her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and became a post-doctor in the molecular genetics field at the International Rice Research Institute.

Donald K. Johnson Eye Centre

Research areas include: Molecular genetics of blinding eye diseases and brain disorders; Treatment, biophysics and psychophysics of glaucoma; Eye movement and control mechanisms; Neuronal damage; Retinal degeneration and diabetic retinopathy; Corneal disease

Malcolm Casadaban

Malcolm Casadaban (12 August 1949 – 13 September 2009) was Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology and of Microbiology at the University of Chicago.

Vojo Deretic

Vojo Deretic, Ph.D., is Professor of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology and Cell Biology & Physiology at the University of New Mexico He received his undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral education in Belgrade, Paris, and Chicago.

Wine Research Centre

As of 2006, 28 scientists are conducting research into the molecular genetics of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Vitis vinifera.