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1,480 entries match Zoology & Animal Sciences [K01.900.500.750]

2014

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Reading vampire gothic through blood: Bloodlines.

2014

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The new frontier of genome engineering with CRISPR-Cas9.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Doubna, Charpenter. "Abstract "The advent of facile genome engineering using the bacterial RNA-guided CRISPR-Cas9 system in animals and plants is transforming biology. We rev…

2014

#11863

Generation of gene-modified Cynomolgus monkey via CAS9/RNA-mediated gene targeting in one-cell embryos.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Niu, Shen, Cui. The authors presented the first evidence that CRISPR can work in primates. Open Archive version available from Cell at this link. "Summary "Monkeys serv…

2014

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A brief history of macromolecular crystallography, illustrated by a family tree and its Nobel fruits.

Free access from FEBS Press at this link.

2015

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History, sex and syphilis: Famous syphilitics and their private lives.

2015

#10424

L'invention de l'hystérie au temps des lumières (1670–1820).

Translated into English as On hysteria: The invention of a medical category between 1670 and 1820 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015).

2015

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The butterflies of North America: Titian Peale's lost manuscript. Foreward by Ellen V. Futter. Preface and scientific captions by David A. Grimaldi. Introduction by Kenneth Haltman.

2015

#11368

The genealogy of a gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and race.

"Myles Jackson uses the story of the CCR5 gene to investigate the interrelationships among science, technology, and society. Mapping the varied “genealogy” of CCR5—intellectual property, natural selection, Big and Sma…

2015

#11807

The coral reef era: From discovery to decline. A history of scientific investigation from 1600 to the anthropocene epoch.

2015

#11848

Gene-edited pigs are protected from porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Whitworth, Rowland, Ewen, ... Prather. Using the CRISPR Cas molecular gene-editing tool, Prather and colleagues edited the gene that codes for the CD163 protein in adul…

2015

#11864

CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing in human tripronuclear zygotes.

This paper was rejected by both Nature and Science partly for "ethical objections." When published it immediately triggered worldwide controversy among scientists and the public. This was the first application of the …

2015

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Insects, hygiene and history.

2015

#14067

Evolution of Darwin’s finches and their beaks revealed by genome sequencing.

The authors sequenced the genome of 120 individuals representing all of Darwin’s finches. They found that a 240 kilobase haplotype encompassing the ALX1 gene, which encodes a transcription factor affecting craniofacia…

2016

#7526

A Linnean kaleidoscope: Linnaeus and his 186 dissertations. 2 vols.

The first comprehensive introduction to all 186 Linnaean dissertations, in the form of short essays (many illustrated) on each dissertation. Most of these dissertations, which were published in Latin, have remained re…

2016

#8106

The smoke of London: Energy and environment in the early modern city.

2016

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Birthing bodies in early modern France: Stories of gender and reproduction.

2016

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African American doctors of World War I: The lives of 104 volunteers.

2016

#9594

Data Refuge.

https://www.datarefuge.org/ "Data Refuge is a public and collaborative project designed to address concerns about federal climate and environmental data that is in danger of being lost[1]. In particular, the initiativ…

2016

#9599

Ancient botany.

2016

#10420

Novel medicine: Healing, literature, and popular knowledge in early modern China.

"By examining the dynamic interplay between discourses of fiction and medicine, Novel Medicine demonstrates how fiction incorporated, created, and disseminated medical knowledge in China, beginning in the sixteenth ce…

2016

#10421

Vanishing America: Species extinction racial peril, and the origins of conservation.

"Nineteenth-century citizens of European descent widely believed that Native Americans would eventually vanish from the continent. Indian society was thought to be tied to the wilderness, and the manifest destiny of U…

2016

#10423

Charles Darwin’s life with birds: His complete ornithology.

2017

#8520

Osler Library Prints Collection.

http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/oslerprints/index.php "This varied collection of approximately 2,500 prints offers a fascinating look into the history of medicine through popular imagery. The medium of the print, bei…

2017

#8867

The beautiful brain: The drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Edited with commentaries by Eric A. Newman, Alfonso Araque, and Janet M. Dubinsky. Essays by Larry W. Swanson, Lyndel King, and Eric Himmel.

A spectacular volume reproducing Ramón y Cajal's drawings in very high quality, and with significant commentaries.

2017

#9474

2,400 years of malacology.

" ... a comprehensive catalog of biographical and bibliographical publications for over 10,000 malacologists, conchologists, paleontologists, and others with an interest in mollusks, from Aristotle to the present. For…

2017

#9693

Frankenstein: Annotated for scientists, engineers, and creators of all kinds

2017

#9702

Literature and medicine in the nineteenth-century periodical press: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-1858.

2017

#9862

Secret cures of slaves: People, plants, and medicine in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.

"Massive mortality among enslaved Africans and European planters, soldiers, and sailors fueled the search for new healing techniques. Amerindian, African, and European knowledges competed to cure diseases emerging fro…

2017

#9882

Malleable anatomies: Models, makers, and material culture in eighteenth-century Italy.

"Malleable Anatomies offers an account of the early stages of the practice of anatomical modeling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy. It investigates the "mania" for anatomical displays that swept the Italian peninsula, …

2017

#9907

Medicalizing blackness: Making racial difference in the Atlantic world, 1780-1840.

2017

#11865

Programmable base editing of A-T to G-C.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Gaudelli, Komor, Rees....Liu. Liu and colleagues developed an advanced CRISPR system that can edit pairings of DNA nucleotide bases Adenine and Thymine into Guanine and…

2017

#12851

The smile revolution in eighteenth century Paris.

2017

#13215

The price for their pound of flesh: The value of the enslaved, from womb to grave, in the building of a nation.

"Berry studies the economic history of slavery in the United States, examining how a price was assigned to the bodies of enslaved people in America from before they were born until after they died.[5] Berry proposes f…

2017

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The role of the WI-38 cell strain in saving lives and reducing morbidity.

In 1961 "Hayflick developed the first normal human diploid cell strains for studies on human aging and for research use throughout the world. Prior to his seminal research, all cultured cell lines were immortal and an…

2018

#9792

The patent medicines industry in Georgian England: Constructing the market by the potency of print.

2018

#10425

Belonging on an island: Birds, extinction, and evolution in Hawai'i.

2018

#10525

The medical imagination: Literature and health in the early United States.

"... During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, doctors understood the imagination to be directly connected to health, intimately involved in healing, and central to medical discovery. In fact, for physicians and…

2018

#10755

To raise up the man farthest down: Tuskegee University's advancements in human health, 1881-1987.

2018

#11089

Mental illness in ancient medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina. Edited by Chiara Thumiger and Peter Singer.

2018

#11382

Rhetoric, medicine, and the woman writer, 1600–1700.

"How did physicians come to dominate the medical profession? Lyn Bennett challenges the seemingly self-evident belief that scientific competence accounts for physicians' dominance. Instead, she argues that the whole e…

2018

#11664

Caring for equality: A history of African American health and healthcare.

2018

#11938

The Oxford handbook of science and medicine in the classical world. Edited by Paul T. Keyser and John Scarborough.

Showcases the work of forty-six scholars from around the world, and comprises an Introduction followed by forty-nine chapters, concluded with a general index. Each chapter is followed by a bibliography featuring multi…

2018

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Medieval bodies: Life, death and art in the Middle Ages.

2018

#12538

Mesopotamian medicine and magic. Studies in honor of Markham J. Geller. Edited by Strahil V. Panayotov and Ludek Vacin.

"The [34] contributions concentrate mainly on Mesopotamian scholarly descriptions and practices of diagnosing and healing diverse physical ailments and mental distress. The festschrift contains both critical editions …

2018

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W. E. B. Du Bois's data portraits. Visualizing black America. The color line at the turn of the twentieth century. Edited by Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert.

2018

#14151

Dynamic basis for dG•dT misincorporation via tautomerization and ionization.

In 1953 Watson and Crick proposed that rarely formed isomers of DNA bases cause spontaneous mutations to occur during the copying of DNA. Such mutations would be easily accommodated because tautomeric mispairs do not …

2019

#11804

The professional library of James W. Porter on corals and coral reefs.

2019

#11866

Search-and-replace genome editing without double-stranded breaks or donor DNA.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Anzalone, Randolph, Davis....Liu. Liu and colleagues modified the CRISPR tool to create the "prime editing" or precise genome editing technique. Working with human and …

2019

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Literature and nature in the English renaissance: An ecocritical anthology. Edited by Todd Andrew Borlik.

2019

#13010

Perilous chastity: Women and illness in Pre-Enlightenment art and medicine.

"Bearing such titles as The Doctor's Visit or The Lovesick Maiden, certain seventeenth-century Dutch paintings are familiar to museum browsers: an attractive young woman—well dressed, but pale and listless—reclines in…