# John Gurdon (@john-gurdon)

John Gurdon was a British developmental biologist. Gurdon transplanted nuclei from differentiated frog cells into enucleated eggs, showing that mature nuclei can retain genetic information for development.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from John Gurdon's public record._

## Topics

- [The 2012 Prize](/@john-gurdon/the-2012-prize.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Nuclear Transfer](/@john-gurdon/nuclear-transfer.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Reversing Differentiation](/@john-gurdon/reversing-differentiation.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2012/gurdon/facts/
- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2012/advanced-information/
- blog: https://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/about/history/john-gurdon/

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "john-gurdon", "question": "…"}`.