DWK Life Sciences Celebrates WOMEN WHO HAVE PAVED THE WAY

ROSALIND FRANKLIN MARIE CURIE ALICE BALL Rosalind Elsie Franklin was an English chemist and X-ray Most recognized for the Alice Ball was an African crystallographer whose work discovery of the elements American chemist who led to the discovery of “the polonium and radium, Curie developed the “Ball secret of life”—the structure was a physicist, chemist, Method,” the first of DNA. She also pioneered and a pioneer in the study successful treatment for the use of X-rays to create of radiation. She was also leprosy during the early images of crystallized awarded the in 20th century. solids in analyzing complex, Chemistry in 1911. unorganized matter, not just single crystals.

TU YOUYOU BARBARA MCCLINTOCK Youyou is a Chinese An American scientist whose DOROTHY HODGKINS pharmaceutical chemist exploration in the 1940s and malariologist. She and ‘50s of mobile genetic Hodgkin was elected a discovered and elements, or “jumping Fellow of the Royal Society , which genes,” McClintock won the in 1947 after publishing the are used in the treatment of Nobel Prize for or structure of penicillin. She . This revelation was Medicine in 1983. Her studies was awarded the Nobel Prize a breakthrough in twentieth- of chromosome breakage in in Chemistry in 1964 for century , maize led her to uncover a determining the perplexing saving millions of lives in chromosome-breaking locus structure of vitamin B12. South , Southeast Asia, that could change its position Africa, and South America. within a chromosome.

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WOMEN SCIENTISTS OF TODAY

CYNTHIA KENYON JENNIFER DOUDNA Kenyon discovered that a single-gene Inventor of groundbreaking technology mutation could double the lifespan of for editing genomes, named healthy, fertile C. elegans roundworms. CRISPR-Cas9. Her invention allows This discovery sparked an intensive scientists to make ultra-precise edits study of the molecular biology of to DNA in cells, and it could potentially aging. Proving that aging does not help to cure genetic deformities and “just happen” and can be subject to diseases — including cancer. genetic control.

NINA TANDON SUNETRA GUPTA Founder and CEO of EpiBone, a Best known for her work to advance company that grows bones for skeletal a new theory for pathogen evolution, reconstruction. It allows practitioners Gupta helps us understand why so to repair bone defects in people by many of them exist as antigenically using the patient’s stem cells to distinct strains. She is also an award- grow new healthy bones in a lab winning novelist. environment.

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SOURCES: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/27/world/women-in-science-you-should-know-scn/index.html https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(10)60426-6/fulltext https://www.srgtalent.com/blog/4-female-scientists-today-who-are-changing-the-world https://www.calicolabs.com/cynthia-kenyon/