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Jan 01, 0001 Darlington, England, United Kingdom 2023 years old
Britsh molecular biologist
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About Mary Osborn
- Mary Osborn (born in 1940) is a L'Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science Award-winning English cell biologist who, until she stopped running an active laboratory in 2005, was on the scientific staff at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany.
- Osborn established two techniques frequently used by cell biologists.
- She pioneered both molecular weight determination of proteins using SDS PAGE and immunofluorescence microscopy.
- Osborn also used the immunofluorescence microscopy method to work out the details of the eukaryotic cytoskeleton.
- Small differences in the intermediate filament constituents helped her distinguish differentiated cells from each other.
- She also found intermediate filament immunofluorescence differences between normal versus cancer cells.
- Mary Osborn has been a prominent spokesperson for women in science.
