John Gurdon in 2012, on the day of his Nobel Prize announcement, with the framed report card from his Eton biology master that dismissed his scientific potential - Clara Molden Sir John Gurdon, the ...

He was told by his teacher at Eton that his dreams of being a scientist were 'quite ridiculous' after failing abysmally in biology class. But rather than whither in the face of the put-down, Sir John ...

After the cloning of Dolly the Sheep, California passed the nation's toughest law against the artificial reproduction of human beings. Now, after Massachusetts-based Advanced Cell Technology announced ...