Her love affair with genetics started in 1921 ... the mechanisms of inheritance in plants, Barbara McClintock had to rely on cross-breeding corn and developing hybrids. Her research focused ...

The tale of much of Barbara ... the graduate genetics course at Cornell. It was here that she became interested in the new field of cytogenetics, specifically of maize or corn.

Like Gregor Mendel before her, Barbara McClintock quietly ... of her major contributions to genetics by studying the chromosomes of maize, also known as Indian corn. She and graduate student ...

Opening on February 24 and running through March 12, with global live streams on March 4 and 11, In McClintock's Corn is the true story of little-known Nobel-prize-winning geneticist Dr. Barbara ...

Professor James Haber had never taken a genetics course when he arrived to teach at Brandeis ... Haber especially looks to Nobel and Morgan winner Barbara McClintock as an inspiration. In 1977, ...

Dr. McClintock was an autistic trailblazer, a female pioneer who broke boundaries with her maize (corn ... genetics and DNA. Directed by Ami Sallee, the play features Nicole Jeannine Smith as ...

These are the best-known milestones in genetics but along the way Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) uncovered several critically important natural mechanisms for transporting genetic information ...