Beatrice Mintz
Beatrice Mintz · Science & Medicine
Developmental geneticist who pioneered techniques for creating chimeric and transgenic mice.
1921, The Bronx, New York City, United States — 2022, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, United States
United States
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Beatrice Mintz was an American developmental geneticist at the Fox Chase Cancer Center who pioneered techniques for creating chimeric mice — animals combining two genetically distinct cell populations — and helped establish transgenic mouse methods that became foundational tools in cancer biology, stem-cell research and genetics. She was Jewish, born in the Bronx to a working-class Jewish immigrant family.
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Developmental geneticist who pioneered techniques for creating chimeric and transgenic mice.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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