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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995 was awarded jointly to Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Eric F. Wieschaus "for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development"
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Christiane (Janni) Nüsslein-Volhard (German pronunciation: [kʁɪsˈti̯anə ˈnʏslaɪ̯n ˈfɔlˌhaʁt] ⓘ; born 20 October 1942) is a German developmental biologist and a 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate. She is the only woman from Germany to have received a Nobel Prize in the sciences.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995 was awarded jointly to Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Eric F. Wieschaus "for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development"
Feb 16, 2012 · Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard studied how genes control embryonic development in flies and in fish in Europe during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In the 1970s, Nüsslein-Volhard focused her career on studying the genetic control of development in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, German developmental geneticist who was jointly awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Eric F. Wieschaus and Edward B. Lewis for their research concerning the mechanisms of early embryonic development. Learn more about Nusslein-Volhard’s life and work.
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Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard approaches biology with the rigour of a scientist and the sensibility of an artist. She helped solve one of the central mysteries of life: how the genes in a fertilised egg direct the formation of an embryo.
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We use the zebrafish (Danio rerio) as a model organism to study pigment pattern formation in a vertebrate. Prof. Dr. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard. Zebrafish display a conspicuous pattern of alternating blue and golden stripes on the body and on the anal- and tailfins.
