Gallery 38: Robert Horvitz

Robert Horvitz, Whitehead Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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16794. Video 38: Michael Hengartner, clip 1

How he ended up in Bob Horvitz's lab working on cell death.

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How he ended up in Bob Horvitz's lab working on cell death.

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Cloning and characterizing the C. elegans cell death gene.

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Purpose of programmed cell death.

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