Marie A. DiBerardino (or Di Berardino) (May 2, 1926 – July 14, 2013, Haverford, Pennsylvania) was an American biologist, specializing in developmental biology and genetics.
She is known, with Robert William Briggs and Thomas Joseph King, as a pioneer in amphibian cloning.
King published[4] the important result that "nuclear transplantation from gastrulae and later stages often resulted in chromosome damage, whereas nuclei from blastula cells were damaged a great deal less.
[6] She received the Jean Brachet Memorial Award of the International Society of Developmental Biology (now called the International Society of Differentiation) and gave the 1996 Jean Brachet Memorial Lecture.
[7][8] She was the co-editor, with Laurence D. Etkin, of Genomic Adaptability in Somatic Cell Specialization[9] She served on numerous editorial boards, lectured at numerous symposia in the USA, Canada, England, France, Italy, Germany, and Japan and was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Society for Development Biology, the International Society of Developmental Biology, the Board of Corporators of the Medical College of Pennsylvania, ...[1]