women geneticists

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women geneticists

The visibles

a novel
Summer Davis, having gained an interest in genetics when she was fifteen-years-old, passes up a fellowship at a prominent institution to take care of her father, whose mental health began to deteriorate after her mother abandoned them, and worries that she is destined to live out her family's legacy.
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The sacred blood

2009
American geneticist Charlotte Hennesey, cured of cancer by DNA extracted from the bones of Jesus, becomes the target of a host of criminals and assassins, most notably Aaron Cohen, a rabbi whose family has been the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant for many years and who wants Charlotte and her now purified blood to open the Ark.

Barbara McClintock

2003
Presents the life and career of the geneticist who in 1983 was awarded the Nobel Prize for her study of maize cells.

Barbara McClintock

Nobel Prize geneticist
1998
Presents the life and career of the geneticist who spent many years studying the cells of maize and in 1983 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

The visibles

a novel
2009
Summer Davis, having gained an interest in genetics when she was fifteen-years-old, passes up a fellowship at a prominent institution to take care of her father, whose mental health began to deteriorate after her mother abandoned them, and worries that she is destined to live out her family's legacy.

Hybrids

2003
Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist from a parallel Earth, and his lover, geneticist Mary Vaughan, are torn between two worlds, struggling to find a way to make their relationship work.

Barbara McClintock

1991
A biography of the geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize for her discovery that certain genes can change their position on the chromosomes of cells.

The sanctuary

2007
A geneticist becomes involved in a deadly quest for a secret that has destroyed everyone in its path for centuries.

Barbara McClintock

genius of genetics
2006
Chronicles the life and major contributions of scientist Barbara McClintock, who was a pioneer in the field of genetics during the mid-twentieth century.

Barbara McClintock

geneticist
2003
Presents the life and career of the geneticist who in 1983 was awarded the Nobel Prize for her study of maize cells.
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