Leo Sachs
Leo Sachs · Science & Medicine
Geneticist who elucidated blood-cell differentiation and pioneered prenatal diagnosis via amniocentesis.
1924, Leipzig, Germany — 2013, Rehovot, Israel
United Kingdom · Israel (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Leo Sachs is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Geneticist who elucidated blood-cell differentiation and pioneered prenatal diagnosis via amniocentesis.
Sachs, a geneticist and cell biologist at the Weizmann Institute, worked out how blood cells differentiate, discovering the regulatory proteins that control the development of normal and leukaemic blood cells and opening cell-therapy and cancer research. He also pioneered prenatal diagnosis through amniocentesis. Born into a Jewish family in Leipzig, he fled Nazi Germany for England as a teenager and later settled in Israel, helping build its life sciences.
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Geneticist who elucidated blood-cell differentiation and pioneered prenatal diagnosis via amniocentesis.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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