Feature: Changing Fates - Sir John Gurdon

Professor Sir John Gurdon is the man who made cloning possible, pioneering nuclear transfer and the ‘reprogramming’ of the fate of cells. Yet, as he told me, he himself owes a lot to fate and luck.

Among the clutter of John Gurdon's brightly lit Cambridge office sits a picture frame, displaying a small scrap of browning paper from an early school report.