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Animal Fibers, Commerce, and the Rise of New Analytical Techniques
In the first decades of the twentieth century, fiber materials from plants and animals were intensively studied with new analytical techniques, includ
Got Milk? Historical Molecular and Microbiomic Interventions in the Gene-Culture Coevolution of Lactase Persistence
The ability to digest the key sugar in fresh milk, lactose, owes to the activity of a special enzyme produced during infancy known as lactase. Product
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Our inquiry focuses upon how changing diagnostic tools have either reinforced or countered longstanding scientific understandings about the global dis
Luis A. Campos
Luis A. Campos received his PhD in the History of Science from Harvard University in 2006, with ...
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Life as It Could Be: Synthetic Biology, Astrobiology, and the Future of Life
The history of synthetic biological efforts to re-engineer life on Earth has overlapped in provocative ways with efforts to understand how life might
Latin into Hebrew: Medieval Natural Science across Linguistic Boundaries
The Latin-into-Hebrew transmission of scholastic texts is a neglected chapter in the prolific history of medieval European knowledge-making. Most of t
Peter Alagona
Peter Alagona is an associate professor of history, geography, and environmental studies at the ...
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Hansun Hsiung
Hansun Hsiung combines methods from book history and the history of science to address fundament...
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Lily Xiaolei Huang
Lily Huang received a BA in History and Literature at Harvard and is currently pursuing a PhD in...
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Mirjam Voerkelius
Mirjam Voerkelius will use her fellowship at the MPIWG to complete her PhD in Late Modern Europe...
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Anna Lisa Ahlers quoted in Nature on talk by He Jiankui about CRISPR and bioethics
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