Esther Lederberg

Podcast: ‘Just the wife’—how sexism in science obscured achievements of four groundbreaking researchers

Kat Arney |
Dr Kat Arney tells the stories of four women from the history of 20th century genetics, and explores how sexism ...
corn

Jumping genes: How Barbara McClintock won a Nobel Prize by crossbreeding corn

Yewande Pearse |
Through meticulous crossbreeding, she showed that DNA is far more complicated than scientists originally thought ...