Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, in Laurel Hollow, New York, is now one of the première non-profit, biological research institutes, specializing in cancer, quantitative biology, neuroscience, and genomics. It has advanced from a school that primarily trained high school and college teachers, to a key developer in molecular genetics and biology, as well as an institution that emphasizes educating the new generation of scientists and the public. According to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory website, this development of the lab was due to a natural progression in the scientific field and having brilliant researchers to propel this future on staff. While this is true, progression and advancements are expected to come with any institution over…

Cornell in 1927. Although women were not always permitted to major in genetics at Cornell, McClintock became a highly influential member of a small group, who studied maize (corn) cytogenetics. McClintock went back to Cornell for several more years until, in 1936, she gladly accepted a position as an assistant professor at the University of Missouri at Columbia. By 1940, however, she believed that she would not gain tenure at Missouri, and quickly left her job. In December 1941, she was offered…

researcher in Biology where he worked with Alexander Rich. Then he went on to teach Biology at Harvard University in 1955 for 15 years and did research there on the role of nucleic acids in the synthesis of proteins and published a book called Molecular Biology of the Gene that is one of the most used books for biology. He later published a book called The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA which was about the discoveries made about DNA and who was involved…

clinical appearance of retinoblastoma changes based on its mode of growth within the eye, and at which stage it’s detected. Retinoblastoma’s most common mode of presentation is a symptom and warning sign called leuocoria, and is discovered most often in photos with flash. A normal ocular fundus (fig. 1) is red and orange, whereas a child with retinoblastoma presenting as leucocoria will have an ocular fundus with a large white spot. In photos with flash, the pupil is white. Most would compare it…

National Laboratory in Tennessee. In 1964, she went back to college at Southern California University and graduated with a PhD. Ms. Chase is most commonly known for her contribution in The Hershey & Chase Experiment. A major contribution from Martha is her thought that DNA rather than protein carried genetic…

the meetings but also in everyday life and took strides to be more like them. My first year in scouts I was appointed patrol leader of the scouts that were my age. I watched closely as to how the older scouts displayed discipline and leadership and how they stayed calm and collected when they were having a hard time getting their patrols together. I felt accomplished when I was able to successfully organize my patrol and staying calm when the task at hand was difficult. The traits I had learned…

She studied in Germany in 1933 for a brief period before returning to Cornell for three years. She was a member of the faculty of the University of Missouri for almost five years, until she realized the ideas the university had of how female scientists should conduct themselves, and left in 1941. She connected with a scientist named Milislav Demerec after working with him for a few months at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and when he became head of the genetics department at Carnegie he offered…

Boris Ignachkov 100827940 BIOL1010 Assignment #1 October 6, 2015 James J. Cheetham, Ph.D. Never Ending Contribution – The Road to the Carleton Prize for Biotechnology We live in the world where change is inevitable, and only those who adapt quickly can achieve great success. John Craig Venter is one of those people. He is a Vietnam veteran that became a biotechnology icon (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2003). His works have contributed enormously to biotechnology. His…

Why did the Law for Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Mental Illnesses become a law? What type of treatments did the people go through? What effects did it have on the patients, the people who performed the sterilizations/ surgeries, and local citizens? The Law for Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Mental Illnesses became a law because the Germans wanted a pure race. The treatments were brutal and the effects differed from the person’s view of the German race and what a part they…

double helix, neither of them thanked Franklin for making their discovery possible. By that time, Franklin had been dead for four years of cancer as a result of her exposure to X-rays. In his 1968 book, The Double Helix, Watson negatively portrayed Franklin and described her as a “belligerent” woman who could not “keep her emotions under control.” Watson also has been reported saying that a woman should abort her unborn child if tests indicated it would be homosexual. He also suggested a…