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A Kaleidoscopic View

  By Robin Marantz Henig
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Walking through the Museum of Modern Art arm-in-arm, Elaine Fuchs and her husband, David Hansen, look like any other New York couple: slim, elegant, dressed in black. But listen in on their conversation as they pause before a Picasso, as I was able to do one afternoon last winter, and you can hear something more: two fiercely intellectual people who look for inspiration for their creative work in almost everything they do, including museum-going.

This trait might be one reason that Fuchs, head of the Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at Rockefeller University in New York, has managed, in her nearly 30-year career, to pioneer new ways of studying skin and hair and to manipulate stem cell differentiation so deftly that she was able to turn a skin stem cell into a cloned adult mouse.

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