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…
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,…
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…
A powerful genome editing tool may soon become even more powerful. Researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have unlocked the key to how bacteria are able to…
Last week, researchers expanded the size of the mouse brain by giving rodents a piece of human DNA. Now another team has topped that feat, pinpointing a human gene that…
Patrick Allard, Assistant Professor with the Institute for Society and Genetics and the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, was awarded the prestigious 2015 International ToxScholar Award. Founded in 1961, the…