A reporter from the MIT Technology Review discusses her experience of consumer genetics company 23andme, and reviews the future relationship between consumer genetics and the health industry. An excerpt follows,…
Former ISG Postdoctoral Fellow, Ruha Benjamin, has recently published a book called “People’s Science: bodies and rights on the stem cell frontier”(Stanford University Press). Benjamin is currently an Assistant Professor…
A research team, led by the Institute of Zoology of Chinese Academy of Sciences and BGI Shenzhen presented the most complete reconstruction of the giant panda’s genetic history to date in the journal Nature Genetics. The whole…
Shirley M. Tilghman, President of Princeton University, and Keith Wailoo, the Townsend Martin Professor of History and Public Affairs, are co-teaching a course called “Modern Genetics and Public Policy for the first time this semester. Together, they possess…
The core premise of the leading model of cancer therapy is that cells become malignant when they develop mutations that make them proliferate uncontrolled. Find a molecule that targets the…
ISG faculty member Dr. Hannah Landecker published her paper, “The Life of Movement: From Microcinematography to Live-Cell Imaging” in The Journal of Visual Culture, a special issue on Documentary and Science, edited by…