DNA-Mapped Furniture Imprints Your Genetic Profile in Your Living Room
Excerpt: If you’ve ever tried to decorate a room and have been frustrated because there weren’t pieces of furniture that were uniquely “you,” you might be in luck. Dutch design…
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Can We Patent Life?
Michael Specter writes for the New Yorker and discusses the question: Can we patent life? Excerpt: The intellectual and commercial bounty from that research has already been enormous, and it…
UC Promotional Video Highlighting Patrick Boudreault
ISG Associate, Patrick Boudreault, is featured in a video promoting the UC Onward California campaign entitled “Language is in Our Minds“. Watch the video here Onward California aims to partner…
Hannah Landecker Interviewed by CSW
ISG faculty, Hannah Landecker, discuses technology, gender, and epigenomics in her interview featured in the Center for the Study of Women’s monthly newsletter. Download and read the full newsletter here
Study Reveals Genetic Link Between Fat and Bone Mass
Researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel and Tulane University in New Orleans published a paper in the journal, Bone, describing the genetic link between fat and bone mass. The…
Researchers Solve Genetic Mystery of Rare Form of Haemophilia
An international team of genetic researchers led by Prof Merlin Crossley from the University of New South Wales has found the third and final missing piece in the genetic puzzle…