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Spemann

[ shpey-mahn ]

noun

  1. Hans [hahns], 1869–1941, German zoologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1935.


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In 1927, Hans Spemann showed that it was possible to change the fate of cells in a salamander embryo.

From Nature

In 1903, the embryologist Hans Spemann conducted his famous experiments with amphibians.

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Then came the Spemann and Mangold-inspired graft.

In the early 1920s, German embryologist Hans Spemann and his graduate student Hilde Mangold were exploring how the embryos of vertebrate animals transform from a hollow ball of cells to a multilayered structure organized along an axis from future head to future tail.

In salamander embryos, Spemann and Mangold found a unique cluster of cells at one end of the streak.

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