Beatrice Mintz (born 1921), US embryologist, in a laboratory. Mintz pioneered genetic engineering techniques. She spent much of her career at cancer r

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Beatrice Mintz (born 1921), US embryologist, in a laboratory. Mintz pioneered genetic engineering techniques. She spent much of her career at cancer research centres in Philadelphia, USA. Her work in the 1960s led to the development of transgenic mice. Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1973, she shared the March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology in 1996.

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