Is called Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren, and was an English geneticist, a prominent figure in developmental biology, best known for her studies on in vitro fertilization.
And she is the protagonist of the Doodle (a special and temporary alteration of the logo on the Google home pages) for this April 26, 2021: today she would have turned 94.
Born in London on April 26, 1927, studied Zoology at Lady Margaret Hall Oxford University, later obtaining a Master of Arts.
He continued his doctoral studies at University College London and thanks to his studies on mouse embryos in vitro, he demonstrated the possibility of creating healthy embryos outside the mother’s womb. Obtained his PhD in 1952, he married his fellow student Donald Michie. The two worked on several university research projects and had three children. Theirs marriage ended in 1959.
McLaren spent fifteen years at the Institute of Animal Genetics, studying a wide variety of related topics fertility, development and epigenetics.
From 1992 to 1996 she held the position of Vice President of the Royal Society, Britain’s oldest and most prestigious scientific research organization, becoming the first woman in history to have a management role within it.
In 2004 he founded, together with Bryan Clarke and his wife Ann, the Frozen Ark, a repository of genetic material belonging to endangered animals, destined both for study and for use in conservation or potential cloning programs.
He died on July 7, 2007 in a car accident, while traveling from Cambridge to London with her ex-husband Donald Michie.
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