The South African, who studied in Britain, found in the microscopic ‘Caenorhabditis elegans’ a model organism to aid the fields of neuroscience and animal development
With the three men as its champion,pushed forward a new understanding of how our cells are programmed to proliferate, specialise and die. It became the first animal to have its complete genome sequenced – an important precedent for the Human Genome Project.The humble worm’s DNA has turned out to be surprisingly similar to humans’ – an aid in understanding how our cells grow uncontrollably to cause cancer, and why they die in excess in neurodegenerative disorders, heart attacks and Aids.
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