Big Data Allows Computer Engineers to Find Genetic Clues in Humans
Big data: It’s a term we read and hear about often, but is hard to grasp. Computer scientists at Washington University in St. Louis’ School of Engineering & Applied Science…
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Why Iceland Is the World’s Greatest Genetic Laboratory
Today, the journal Nature Genetics released a set of four papers based entirely on the genetic sequences of Icelanders. Their results, which range from the identification of a new Alzheimer’s-associated…
Williams Institute at UCLA Launches First-Of-Its-Kind Study of U.S. Transgender Population
Researchers at the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law, Columbia University and The Fenway Institute at Fenway Health are launching a first-of-its-kind study of the transgender population in the…
Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals can Adversely Affect Reproduction of Future Generations of Fish
Bisphenol A (BPA) is a chemical that is used in a variety of consumer products, such as water bottles, dental composites and resins used to line metal food and beverage…
Do Your Genes Determine Your Entire Life?
Whenever you read stories about identical twins separated at birth, they tend to follow the template set by the most remarkable of them all: the “two Jims”. James Springer and…
2015 | Soraya de Chadarevian – Chromosome Photography and the Human Karyotype
ISG professor, Soraya de Chadarevian, has published a paper titled “Chromosome Photography and the Human Karyotype” in Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, Vol. 45, No. 1 (February 2015) (pp….