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I’m doing a project featuring little-known women of science as a part of my studies as a lab technician.
I’ll be drawing some portraits and illustrating the research and discoveries of some interesting scientists✨

Let’s start!

🧬Nettie Stevens. American geneticist who discovered chromosomes X/Y by studying Mealworms (Tenebrio molitor)
4 May 2022 at 19:58 | Open on mastodon.art
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🧬Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing precise DNA-editing technology, CRISPR.
5 May 2022 at 17:47 | Open on mastodon.art
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🔬Bonnie L. Bassler
Molecular biologist. She researched chemical communication between bacteria, also called ‘quorum sensing’.
8 May 2022 at 15:25 | Open on mastodon.art
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Alice Catherine Evans🔬

American microbiologist. She investigated bacteriology in milk and cheese. She demonstrated that Bacillus abortus caused the disease brucellosis.
22 May 2022 at 17:49 | Open on mastodon.art
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Gabriella Morreale💉✨

Italian-born Spanish chemist who specialised in the study of the thyroid. She established a newborn screening program for congenital hypothyroidism in Spain and helped to introduce iodised salt to prevent thyroid problems caused by iodine deficiency.
25 May 2022 at 20:22 | Open on mastodon.art
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Esther Zimmer Lederberg🔬🧬

American pioneer of bacterial genetics.
She discovered the bacterial virus λ (lambda)and the bacterial fertility factor F.
26 Jun 2022 at 20:46 | Open on mastodon.art
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