Happy birthday to Canadian geneticist Irene Ayako Uchida (1917-2013)! She is shown surrounded by chromosones, with anomalies (pink arrows) due to radiation exposure, based on 1 of her research papers. A strand of DNA is hidden in the image (her watchband).
Uchida didn’t set out to be a scientist. She was studying English literature at UBC, before she was interned with other Canadians of Japanese heritage during WWII. 🧵1/
Genetic analysis has shed light on a long-standing mystery surrounding the fates of President George Washington’s younger brother Samuel and his kin. Two of Samuel’s descendants and their mother were recently identified from skeletal remains found in unmarked burials dating back to the 1880s, CNN Reports: https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/28/us/george-washington-descendants-dna-study-scn/index.html
When the ancestor of all terrestrial vertebrates crawled from the sea onto land, she had a tail. Our primate ancestors had tails. In fact, many primates still do. So where did our tails go?
In my latest for @CNN I spoke with the scientists who recently identified the genetic crossroads where hominoids—humans and great apes—took one route, and our tails took another.
Cedric will be speaking in the Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 2nd Floor of the Anthro building. Please use main entrance of the Archaeology Institute in Gordon Square and someone will help direct you across to the Anthro building.
The articles were originally published between 2019 and 2021. in Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine (MGGM), a genetics journal under the purview of the US academic publishing company Wiley.
Interested in #honey#bee health? Come do a #PhD in our group in University College Dublin on 'Protecting Irish bees through field trials and genomics-informed strategies'
Primarily supervised by Dr Julia Jones in the School of Biology and Environmental Science, in collaboration with Drs Dara Stanley and Nicholas Brereton
Just a reminder that, following the Royal Society event in Jan, my article 'Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain' has been made freely available until the end of Feb/LGBTQ+ History Month.