Lewis Wolpert - Selected publications#

• Wolpert, L.& Alison Richards (1988) A Passion for Science, Oxford University Press
• Wolpert, L (1991) The Triumph of the Embryo,, Oxford University Press
• Wolpert, L. (1992) The Unnatural Nature of Science, Faber, London
• Wolpert, L. & Alison Richards (1997) Passionate Minds, Oxford University Press
• Wolpert, L. (1999) Malignant Sadness. The Anatomy of Depression, Faber, London
• Wolpert,L (2006) Six impossible things before breakfast - the evolutionary origins of belief Faber
• Wolpert, L., Jessell,T, Lawrene,P, Meyerowitz,E, Robertson,E, and Smith,J. Principles of development 2006 3rd edition OUP
• Wolpert, L. (2009) How we Live and Why we Die: The Secret Lives of Cells. Faber and Faber, London, ISBN: 9780571239115

Publications

• Wolpert, L. (1960) The mechanics and mechanism of cleavage. Int.Rev.Cytol.,10,163 216
• Wolpert, L. & O'Neill, C.H. (1962) The dynamics of the membrane of Amoeba proteus with labelled specific antibody. Nature, 196, 1261 1266
• Gustafson, T. & Wolpert, L. (1963) The cellular basis of morphogenesis and sea urchin development. Int.Rev.Cytol., 15, 139 214
• Wolpert, L. (1969) Positional information and the spatial pattern of cellular differentiation. J.Theoret.Biol., 25, 1 47 325 36
• Summerbell, D., Lewis, JH & Wolpert, L. (1973) Positional information in chick limb morphogenesis. Nature, 244, 492 6
• Tickle, C., Summerbell, D. & Wolpert, L. (1975) Positional signalling and specification of digits in chick limb morphogenesis. Nature, 254, 199 202
• Tickle, C., Alberts, B., Wolpert, L. & Lee, J. (1982) Local application of retinoic acid to the limb bond mimics the action of the polarizing region. Nature, 296, 564 565
• Wolpert, L. & Hornbruch, A. (1987) Positional signalling and the development of the humerus in the chick limb bud. Development, 100, 333 338
• Brown, N.A. & Wolpert, L. (1990) The development of handedness in left/right asymmetry. Development, 109 (1) 1 9
• Kerszberg, M. & Wolpert, L. (1998) The origin of metazoa and the egg: a role for cell death. Journal of Theoretical Biology 193, 535 537
• Wolpert, L. (1999) Is science dangerous? Nature, 398 ,281 282
• Wolpert, L. (2001) Ethical link between IVF and stem-cell research. Nature, 413, 107-108
• Bertocchini F, Skromne I, Wolpert L, Stern CD. 2004 Determination of embryonic polarity in a regulative system: evidence for endogenous inhibitors acting sequentially during primitive streak formation in the chick embryo. Development.31:3381-90.
• Tabin,C and Wolpert,L 2007 Rethinking the proximodistal axis of the vertebrate limb in the molecular era. Genes and Development 21, 1433-1442
• Kerszberg M, Wolpert L. 2007 Specifying positional information in the embryo: looking beyond morphogens. Cell, 130, 205-9.