Birthdate: March 27, 1942
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Cambridge, England
Died: March 6, 2018
Sir John Edward Sulston was a British biologist known for his pioneering research on the cell lineage and genome of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2002 for this work, which was conducted at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Sulston was a significant figure in human genome research and held leadership positions, including chairing the Institute for Science, Ethics, and Innovation at the University of Manchester. He was an advocate for open access to scientific information and was against the patenting of genes and privatization of genetic technologies.
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