John C. Sanford
From ResearchID.org
John C. Sanford was born in 1950. In 1976 he received his B.S. in Horticulture from the University of Minnesota-St. Paul, and went on to earn a M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, both in Plant Breeding. In 1980 he began serving as an Assistant Professor at Cornell University, and became an Associate Professor there in 1986. Since 1998 he has been a Courtesy Associate Professor in the Department of Horticultural Sciences.
Prof. Sanford has authored more than 75 papers and has 27 patents. Most significantly, Sanford invented the gene gun that is used to engineer most of the world's transgenic crops. Currently Sanford is studying the theoretical limits of mutation/selection from an intelligent design perspective.
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Mutation Research
Sanford reviewed population genetics in Genetic Entropy and the Mystery of the Genome. He reveals the fundamental problem of progressively increasing mutation load. This is due to the much higher rate of detrimental mutations to favorable mutations, combined with the fact that selection is not over individual mutations, but over the total impact of all mutations.
Patents
- US Patent 6,004,287 Dale J, Loomis; Joe Celeste, & John Sanford December 21, 1999 Biolistic apparatus for delivering substances into cells and tissues
- US Patents issued to John Sanford
Publications
- Genetic Entropy & the Mystery of the Genome, 2006, Elim Publications. Elim, NY. 208 pages. ISBN 1599190028
- John Sanford's publications current
- John C. Sanford publications 1982-1995
Reviews
- Respected Cornell geneticist rejects Darwinism in his recent book Scordova [1]
- Mattinson's Musings: Book Review: Genetic Entropy and the Mystery of the Genome
- ID at Cornell, John Sanford and Allen MacNeill
- Original Dissent blog
- Dr John Sanford New Honorary Guide of the Raelian Movement [2]
- Newton's Bionium
- Amazon Readers
- Two or Three Blog
- Science Books readers
- TrueFresco readers
- Dr. Vernon Bissel Design Science Association
- BrightSurf Readers
Honors
- Adjunct Assoc. Prof. of Botany - Duke University, Durham, NC.
- Distinguished Inventor Award (W. Greatbatch, J. Sanford) 1995, Gene therapy for retroviruses. Central New York Patent Law Association.
- Distinguished Inventor Award (J. Sanford, E. Wolf, N. Allen) 1990, Central New York Patent Law Association.
