Painted Embryo
Courtesy of Walter GehringOn our chromosomal walk to clone the Antennapedia gene, Richard Garber and Atsushi Kuroiwa also cloned the segmentation gene fushi tarazu (ftz). Ernst Hafen and Michael Levine had concurrently developed an in situ hybridization method to tissue sections. Garber joined forces with Hafen to hybridize ftz recombinant DNA to wild-type embryos in order to localize the ftz+ transcripts. A few weeks later, I was seated at my desk when Hafen and Kuroiwa burst into my office and
Jan 18, 2004
Courtesy of Walter Gehring

On our chromosomal walk to clone the
- Walter Gehring, University of Basel