The tale of much of Barbara McClintock’s life is that of the scientist working long hours with a microscope seeking to solve mysteries. The mystery she spent most of her career trying to solve ...

As A factor of unknown location (at least when McClintock was conducting her research) that impacts the expression of Ds. Barbara McClintock's discovery of transposable elements in Zea mays ...

Jim Aylesworth, Author, Barbara McClintock, Author, Barbara McClintock, Illustrator, illus. by Barbara McClintock. Scholastic $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-39545-8 The team behind The Gingerbread ...

Geneticist Barbara McClintock, since her death in 1992, has become a feminist hero. She held steady in the male-dominated world of science, earning her first award in 1947 and culminating her career ...

Barbara McClintock’s pioneering work in genetics began just two decades after biologists rediscovered Gregor Mendel’s work on heredity in 1900. After refining chromosome-staining techniques, ...

Transposable elements, or "jumping genes", were first identified by Barbara McClintock more than 50 years ago. Why are transposons so common in eukaryotes, and exactly what do they do? In addition ...

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Women have been incredibly talented and has been keeping up significant contributions to the science Technology, Engineering ...

SeaSketch California, an open-source marine spatial planning tool developed in the lab of UC Santa Barbara researcher Will ...

“for the next twelve and a half years.” Melding her distinctive clear-line style with dePaola’s own, McClintock (Tomfoolery!) captures Brontë’s beguiling antics as a young pup, and ...