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…
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…
ISG professor Soraya de Chadarevian has published “Chromosome Photography and the Human Karyotype.” The paper revisits the famous 1956 Tjio and Levan study that corrected the human chromosome count to 46, focusing on how its chromosome images evolved from scientific proof to iconic symbol.
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 sociologist of science Hannah Landecker, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Society and Genetics at UCLA.
Hannah Landecker has published “Antibiotic Resistance and the Biology of History” in Body & Society. The paper traces how antibiotic use since the 1940s has driven bacterial resistance far beyond individual bodies, turning stored soil and clinical samples into a physical record of human history embedded in bacterial life.
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,…