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Clifford Tabin

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Clifford Tabin · Science & Medicine

What

Developmental geneticist who elucidated the genetic control of limb formation

When

1954, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Where

United States

Biography

Clifford Tabin is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Developmental geneticist who elucidated the genetic control of limb formation

How & why

Clifford Tabin is an American developmental geneticist at Harvard Medical School whose work on the Sonic hedgehog and Hox genes elucidated the genetic control of limb formation and body patterning in vertebrate embryos. His discoveries are foundational to modern developmental biology. He is Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science

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Developmental geneticist who elucidated the genetic control of limb formation

1954

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science