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Nüsslein-Volhard
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Nüss·lein-Vol·hard  (nüslnfôlhärt), Christiane Born 1942.
German biologist who shared a 1995 Nobel Prize in medicine for her work with fruit flies, which identified the genes that are essential for the embryonic development of the body segments.


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One Nobel prize winner, the biologist Christiane Nusslein-Volhard has addressed this issue by providing grants for women scientists to help pay for someone else to cook and do the laundry (Bhattacharjee, 2005), but this is unlikely to be sufficient.
Furthermore, the principle underlying the initial model, which was later rejected, is still used to explain other biological patterning mechanisms (St Johnston & Nusslein-Volhard, 1992); therefore, it is an additional advantage for students to be introduced to this principle as well.
 
 
 
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