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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

ELLIS, Hilary M.

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1986 CE

#9939

Genetic control of programmed cell death in the nematode C. elegans.

HORVITZ, Howard Robert (1947 – ) ELLIS, Hilary M.

Using C. elegans to investigate whether there was a genetic program controlling cell death, or apoptosis, In 1986, Horvitz identified the first "death genes", ced-3 and ced-4. He showed that functional ced-3 and ced-4…