Skin biology illuminates how stem cells operate

Tuesday, March 24, 2009 - 11:57 in Psychology & Sociology

As a girl, Elaine Fuchs borrowed her mother’s old strainers and mixing bowls to collect polliwogs, an activity she credits for her present-day career as a biologist.It also helped that her father was a geochemist who studied meteorites, her aunt a radiation expert, her older sister a neuroscientist. Going on to study science “was almost a no-brainer,” said Fuchs, who did her Ph.D. at Princeton University.read more

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