Dale DeBakcsy
The Last Woman Who Knew Everything: The Omnivorous Mind of Clémence Royer.
When Clémence Royer died on February 7, 1902, she took with her into oblivion perhaps the last human brain that believed in and aimed for...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Mar 5
The Strangers Within: Lynn Margulis and the Rebirth of Endosymbiosis
In terms of cell count, ninety percent of you isn't you at all. Bacteria, though by mass they only make up about two percent of a human...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Feb 19
Taking the Wheel: Jennifer Doudna, Emmanuelle Charpentier, and the CRISPR-Cas9 Revolution in Gene Editing.
Over the course of the last two decades, humanity has taken its first quiet steps from being the blind victims of genetic-molecular...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Dec 6, 2023
All Creatures Small: Libbie Hyman's Invertebrates.
Science is a creature of lurches and inchings, presided over by two (mostly) mutually exclusive castes. We know the lurchers well,...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Oct 24, 2023
Born Not Taught: Marian Koshland and the Source of Antibody Variation.
The human body is a truly wonderful place to live, if you can fit in it. It's warm and protected and, because humans are such clever at...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Sep 7, 2023
Breaking Neutral: The Population Genetics of Tomoko Ohta
We are all mutants, our genes loaded with the steadily acquired variations of three billion years that gradually changed a collection of...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Jul 8, 2023
Where Sex Begins: The Chromosomal Investigations of Nettie Stevens.
If you were to ask an ancient Greek how it is determined that a baby is born a boy or a girl, they would have had some interesting and...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Jun 2, 2023
Eugenie “The Shark Lady” Clark and the Grim Truths of Early Marine Biology.
To the uninitiated, there seems a dizzying amount of carnage wrapped up in advancing biological knowledge. Every scrap of information...
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Dale DeBakcsy
May 26, 2023
Guns N Taxonomy: The Vertebrate Biology of Annie Alexander
As a rule, our favorite flavors of scientist are the theoretical and experimental – we tend to like them either sitting in a chair...
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