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Center for PostNatural History – Grand Opening

The newly opened Center for PostNatural History founded by Rich Pell in Pittsburgh is the first museum that seeks to catalog man-made biological organisms. Pell is not a scientist, but an artist, one member of a growing DIY community that is exploring–and making–a new meaning of life as we know it. Pell is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at…

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2012 | Soraya de Chadarevian: Making of Entrepreneurial Science

ISG professor, Dr. Soraya de Chadarevian, recently published a paper entitled “Making of Entrepreneurial Science: Biotechnology in Britain”. Abstract: Monoclonal antibodies played a key role in the development of the biotechnology industry of the 1980s and 1990s. Investments in the sector and commercial returns have rivaled those of recombinant DNA technologies. Although the monoclonal antibody technology was first developed in Britain, the first…

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