There is no doubt that I was blessed with a considerable amount of luck. John Gurdon More Quotes by John Gurdon More Quotes From John Gurdon I must have been born with a strong attraction toward, and possibly even an aptitude for, doing things on a small scale. John Gurdon doingsmallbornstrong I remember that, at an early age, I spent many months making a three-masted sailing boat with rigging in a half-walnut shell. John Gurdon earlyboatageremember My first attempts to transplant nuclei in Xenopus were completely unsuccessful, because the Xenopus egg, unlike those of other amphibians, is surrounded by an extremely elastic membrane and jelly layer that make penetration by a micropipette impossible. John Gurdon surroundedeggfirstimpossible Within six months of starting my Ph.D. work in 1956, I had already obtained feeding tadpoles derived from transplanted nuclei of embryonic cells. John Gurdon feedingstartingcellswork In principle. what is done is to take the nucleus out of a cell with a very fine micro-pipette or needle and introduce it into an egg. That had been done with amphibians a long time ago, and then there was a long pause of many years before people were clever enough to make that work in the sheep. John Gurdon worktimelongpeople
