Sanford, Katherine (1915–)
Sanford, Katherine (1915–)
American medical researcher. Name variations: Katherine K. Sanford. Born 1915 in Wellesley, Massachusetts; Brown University, PhD.
Worked at the National Cancer Institute for entire career, developing tissue-culture techniques and examining ways of promoting cancerous transformations in cultured cells; was the 1st to clone mammalian cell (1948), isolating single cell in order for it to propagate itself and creating vital tool for detailed pathological study of cancer-causing mechanisms.
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