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Sir Alec John Jeffreys, CH FRS MAE (born 9 January 1950) is a British geneticist known for developing techniques for genetic fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used worldwide in forensic science to assist police detective work and to resolve paternity and immigration disputes.. Jeffreys is Professor of Genetics at the University of Leicester, and became an honorary freeman of the ...
Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys studied biochemistry and genetics at Merton College, Oxford.Following an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Amsterdam where, with Dr Richard Flavell, he was one of the first to discover split genes, he moved in 1977 to the Department of Genetics at the University of Leicester where he currently holds the positions of Professor of Genetics and Royal ...
Alec Jeffreys and genetic fingerprinting. In 1984, Alec Jeffreys discovered the technique of genetic fingerprinting in a laboratory in the Department of Genetics at the University of Leicester.
Read about the history of genetic fingerprinting, and Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys' journey from Oxford to Leicester to beyond genetic fingerprinting.
Sep 23, 2009 · It’s 25 years since Alec Jeffreys made the accidental discovery of the first DNA fingerprint, which transformed forensics – and his life. The first DNA “fingerprint” was a murky pattern on ...
Nov 18, 2013 · Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys studied biochemistry and genetics at The University of Oxford, UK. Following an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where he was one of the first to discover split genes, he moved in 1977 to the Department of Genetics at the University of Leicester where he held the positions of Professor of Genetics and Royal Society ...
Dec 11, 2009 · In 1984, while tracking the veins of globin gene evolution and panning the human genome for hypervariable linkage markers, Sir Alec Jeffreys accidentally struck gold—he discovered a way to identify any human being by a DNA “fingerprint”.
Mar 26, 2020 · 35 years ago this month, scientists at the University of Leicester published a paper that changed the world. We look at the story of DNA profiling and how it has been used to solve immigration disputes, paternity tests and horrific crimes.
Aug 5, 2014 · Prof Sir Alec Jeffreys, who invented genetic fingerprinting in 1984, receives the world's oldest science prize, the Royal Society's Copley Medal.
Dec 20, 2006 · Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, the inventor of DNA fingerprinting, remembers his childhood passion for science, explains what we have learned from direct DNA analysis, and describes his work with Chernobyl survivors. Interviewed by Russ Hodge and Anna-Lynn Wegener from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany.
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