For her part, the 54-year-old Hunt, now at Washington State University, focuses on aneuploidy, or an abnormal number of chromosomes in eggs that causes birth defects and miscarriages.

• 现年54岁、任教于华盛顿州立大学的杭特，目前致力于研究会导致先天缺陷和流产的受精卵中非整倍体（染色体数目异常）。