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…
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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….
‘The Biology of History’: Antibiotics, Resistant Bacteria and the Human Effect. An Interview with Hannah Landecker
To supplement the publication of ‘Antibiotic Resistance and the Biology of History’ in Body & Society, Andrea Núñez Casal, MPhil/PhD candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London, interviews the author, historian and…
2015 | Hannah Landecker – Antibiotic Resistance and the Biology of History
ISG Acting Director, Hannah Landecker, has published a paper titled “Antibiotic Resistance and the Biology of History” in Body & Society. Abstract: Beginning in the 1940s, mass production of antibiotics involved the…
Genetically Speaking, Mammals Are More Like Their Fathers
You might resemble or act more like your mother, but a novel research study from UNC School of Medicine researchers reveal that mammals are genetically more like their dads. Specifically,…
Challenging Gender Identity: Biologists Say Gender Expands Across A Spectrum, Rather Than Simply Boy And Girl
The sex designation of your brain and body may not be as black and white as scientists have believed it to be. Instead gender may fall somewhere on a gray…