Genetic screens to bioethics - developmental biology for the people

Abstract

Christiane (Janni) Nüsslein-Volhard is our representative in the wider world. Along with Eric Wieschaus and Ed Lewis, she was the recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Physiology, which was awarded for her genetic screens on Drosophila that led to the discovery of most of the genes that control development, not just in Drosophila, but in all animals.