Ruth Sager
Ruth Sager · Science & Medicine
Geneticist who established the field of cytoplasmic (non-chromosomal) genetics.
1918, Chicago, Illinois, USA — 1997, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
United States
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Ruth Sager was an American geneticist who established the field of cytoplasmic (non-chromosomal) genetics, showing that genes outside the cell nucleus, such as in chloroplasts, are inherited, work later vindicated as central to biology. In her second career she pioneered research into tumor-suppressor genes in cancer. She was born in Chicago to a Jewish family.
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Geneticist who established the field of cytoplasmic (non-chromosomal) genetics.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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