Until the lion has a historian of his own, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. This African proverb inspires the title of Professor Sandra Swart's book, as she sets out to take on the challenge of writing a multi-species history that does not glorify the hunter. Professor Swart from Stellenbosch University, South Africa, successfully produces a compelling multispecies history of Africa. As...
A New Frontier in Brain Science and Ethics Recent advances in stem-cell biology have enabled scientists to grow organoids—three-dimensional clusters of human cells that mimic aspects of real organs. Among these, brain organoids stand out. These lab-grown neural tissues offer unprecedented insight into human brain development...
These two books deal with the same topic, animal research and testing, in quite different ways. Both describe very personal explorations of the topic, grounded in the two authors' interactions with laboratory animals. Melanie Kaplan, author of Lab Dog and a journalist, adopted a beagle, Hammy,...
In 1990, an international research collaboration was launched to map and sequence the human genome, now known as the Human Genome Project (HGP). Four years earlier, Thomas H. Roderick of the Jackson Laboratory in Maine coined a new term – "genomics" – that was adopted...
