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Lysogenic Bacteria as an Experimental Model at the Pasteur Institute (1915-1965)

By: Valerie Racine | Published: Oct 10, 2014

Lysogenic bacteria, or virus-infected bacteria, were the primary experimental models used by scientists working in the laboratories of the Pasteur…

ContextInstitut Pasteur (Paris, France)BacteriaEscherichia coliMonod, Jacques
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1,000 Genomes Project (2008–2015)

By: Matthew Tontonoz | Published: Aug 10, 2025

The 1,000 Genomes Project, which began in 2008, was an international effort to create a detailed and publicly accessible catalog of human genetic…

Human genomeHuman Genome ProjectGenome-Wide Association StudyWhole Genome SequencingNational Human Genome Research Institute (U.S.)

Curt Jacob Stern (1902-1981)

By: Dasia Garcia | Published: Jun 23, 2017

Curt Jacob Stern studied radiation and chromosomes in humans and fruit flies in the United States during the twentieth century. He researched the…

ChromosomesHeredityMitosisDrosophilaDrosophila melanogaster

Mary-Claire King (1946– )

By: Meilin Zhu | Published: Aug 23, 2017

Mary-Claire King studied genetics in the US in the twenty-first century. King identified two genes associated with the occurrence of breast cancer,…

GeneticsBreast--Cancer--SusceptibilityBreast--Cancer--Prognosis--Statistical methods--CongressesBreast--Cancer--ResearchDNA fingerprinting
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Maxine Frank Singer (1931–2024)

By: Abigail Cave | Published: Dec 06, 2024

Maxine Frank Singer was a researcher who studied molecular biology and genetics in the United States during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries…

Genetic CodeLong Interspersed Nucleotide ElementsGenetic EngineeringGenetic recombinationAsilomar Conference Grounds

Barbara McClintock's Transposon Experiments in Maize (1931–1951)

By: Federica Turriziani Colonna | Published: Feb 09, 2017

Barbara McClintock conducted experiments on corn (Zea mays) in the United States in the mid-twentieth century to study the structure and function of…

TransposonsCornCytogeneticsChromosomesGenetics

Simon Edward Fisher (1970-)

By: Kat Fowler | Published: Apr 27, 2017

Simon Edward Fisher studied the genes that control speech and language in England and the Netherlands in the late twentieth and early twenty-first…

GeneticsWellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics (Oxford, England)Language AcquisitionTranscription factorsForkhead Transcription Factors

Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association's suit against Monsanto, 2012 and 2013

By: Ernest Nkansah-Dwamena | Published: Dec 30, 2014

In March 2011 the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association and around sixty agricultural organizations (OSGATA et al.) filed a suit against…

ContextGenetic EngineeringPatent laws and legislationAgricultural biotechnologyTransgenic organisms

Social Implications of Non-Invasive Blood Tests to Determine the Sex of Fetuses

By: Ceara O'Brien | Published: Mar 23, 2014

By 2011, researchers in the US had established that non-invasive blood tests can accurately determine the gender of a human fetus as early as seven…

ContextDiagnostic sex determinationSex PreselectionFetusSex Determination Analysis

Jérôme Lejeune (1926−1994)

By: Maeen Arslan, Grace Fitzgerald | Published: Aug 19, 2021

Jérôme Lejeune was a French physician and researcher who studied genetics and developmental disorders. According to the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation, in…

Down syndromeMongolismKaryotypeGenetic ScreeningGenetic Concepts