Center for PostNatural History – Grand Opening
The newly opened Center for PostNatural History founded by Rich Pell in Pittsburgh is the first museum that seeks to catalog man-made biological organisms. Pell is not a scientist, but…
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Aaron Panofsky's research discussed in Science Careers article
ISG Assistant Professor Aaron Panofsky’s research was recently discussed as part of an article in Science Careers. The article explores how disease researchers can reach out to patients by building…
2012 | Soraya de Chadarevian: Making of Entrepreneurial Science
ISG professor, Dr. Soraya de Chadarevian, recently published a paper entitled “Making of Entrepreneurial Science: Biotechnology in Britain”. Abstract: Monoclonal antibodies played a key role in the development of the…
Examining His Own Body, Stanford Geneticist Stops Diabetes in Its Tracks
Over a 14-month period molecular geneticist Michael Snyder of Stanford University analyzed his blood 20 different times to pluck out a wide variety of biochemical data depicting the status of…
Landecker receives ACLS fellowship
Congratulations to ISG Associate Professor Hannah Landecker on receiving a prestigious American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellowship. She was one of 65 recipients out of 1191 applicants. About ACLS: The mission…
2012 | Dna Sequencing Of Maternal Plasma Reliably Identifies Trisomy 18 and13 and Down Syndrome
To determine whether maternal plasma cell–free DNA sequencing can effectively identify trisomy 18 and 13, an interantional group of scientists collaborated and found that among high-risk pregnancies, sequencing circulating cell–free…