Nicole Marthe Le Douarin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Nicole Marthe Le Douarin

French biologist

Date of Birth: 20-Aug-1930

Place of Birth: Lorient, Brittany, France

Profession: professor, biologist, university teacher, teacher-researcher, embryologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Nicole Marthe Le Douarin (born 20 August 1930, Lorient, France) is a developmental biologist, famed for her studies of chimeras, which have led to critical insights regarding higher animal nervous and immune systems. Le Douarin invented an embryo manipulation technology to produce chimeric embryos, from chicken and quails.
She is notable for shedding light on the development of higher animal nervous and immune systems.
She showed that precursor cells within the neural crest were multipotent.
Her technique has also permitted her to shed light on the development of the blood and immune systems.
Her work on antero-posterior patterning of the vertebrate digestive tract laid the grounds for future work, leading to a better understanding of antero-posterior patterning in the digestive tract.