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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

HUNT, Sir Richard Timothy (1943 – )

1943 –

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1983 CE

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Cyclin: A protein specified by maternal mRNA in sea urchin eggs that is destroyed at each cleavage division.

HUNT, Sir Richard Timothy (1943 – )
EVANS, Tom
EVANS, Tom ROSENTHAL, Eric T. YOUNGBLOOM, Jim DISTEL, Daniel

"It was at Woods Hole around July 1982, using Arbacia sea urchin eggs as his model organism, that he discovered cyclin proteins.[12] Cyclins play a key role in regulating the cell-division cycle.[16] Hunt was observin…