Category: Women In Science

April 22, 2015

VIDEO: Nessa Carey Discusses Junk DNA

Watch Nessa Carey, author of JUNK DNA, discuss her new book.

April 21, 2015

An Interview with Nessa Carey, Author of "Junk DNA"

The following is an interview with Nessa Carey, author of Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome: Question: Junk DNA explores the massive amount of excess DNA that do not directly create genes and make up...

July 8, 2014

Interview with Naomi Oreskes, author of The Collapse of Western Civilization

The following is an interview with Naomi Oreskes, coauthor of, with Erik M. Conway, The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future: Question: In The Collapse of Western Civilization you approach climate change as a fictionalized future historian...

June 21, 2013

Donna Dickenson: Reclaiming Biotechnology for the Common Good

“Under the pressure of corporate interests and neoliberal policies, we’ve lost sight of the idea of the commons in biomedicine—but it has only disappeared temporarily from view. Reclaiming biotechnology for the greater good will involve resurrecting the commons.”—Donna Dickenson In...

June 19, 2013

Donna Dickenson, author of Me Medicine vs. We Medicine, Takes the Page 99 Test

“We risk losing sight of the common good in biotechnology—what I call ‘We Medicine’—in our haste to embrace personalized healthcare.”–Donna Dickenson The Page 99 Test asks authors to turn to page 99 in their books and explain how the page...

June 18, 2013

Donna Dickenson — Me Medicine vs. We Medicine

“I ask this crucial question: how did we move from what was originally presented as a communitarian vision for the new genetic biomedicine to the now-dominant personalized medicine paradigm?”—Donna Dickenson The following post is by Donna Dickenson, author of Me...