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- Title
Pursuing the impossible: an interview with Tim Hunt.
- Authors
Hunt, Tim
- Abstract
Tim Hunt took an undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge in 1964, and his PhD and subsequent work focussed on the control of protein synthesis until 1982, when his adventitious discovery of the central cell cycle regulator cyclin, while he was teaching at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, redirected him to the study of cell cycle regulation. From 1990 to his retirement Tim worked in the Clare Hall Laboratories of Cancer Research UK. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine with Lee Hartwell and Paul Nurse in 2001, and talked to us about the series of coincidences that led him to the prizewinning discovery.
- Subjects
HUNT, Tim; MATURATION-promoting factor; CELL cycle; ARTIFICIAL Parthenogenesis &; Fertilization (Book); BIOCHEMISTS
- Publication
BMC Biology, 2015, Vol 13, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1741-7007
- Publication type
Interview
- DOI
10.1186/s12915-015-0164-y