Adios and salut to a pioneer!
Sir John Gurdon studied the requirements and barriers of #reprogramming.
Highly relevant for us, with his PhD student Vincent Pasque he showed that macroH2A is part of the epigenetic barrier inhibiting reprogramming.
Our thoughts are with his family and friends.
@manuel-collado.bsky.socialSad to hear about the passing of John Gurdon, a titan and pioneer of developmental biology and much more. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology, shared with Shinya Yamanaka, who actually was inspired by his work
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Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Gurdon dies aged 92
It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the Gurdon Institute.