Critical commentaries

Anecdotal, historical and critical commentaries on genetics.

Anecdotal , Historical and Critical Commentaries on Genetics

S OMEWHERE in Latin America a single P-element copy found its way into the genome of Drosophila melanogaster from another insect species. Once there, these transposable elements made use of their new hosts’ DNA repair mechanism to increase their copy number while transposing to new genomic positions. Within the span of a few decades they spread worldwide to encompass nearly the entire species. ...

Perspectives on genetics: anecdotal, historical, and critical commentaries, 1987–1998

Shelley's novel Frankenstein of 1818, in which a scientist creates human life, and it turns on him in revenge. The story has been retold over and over through the succeeding two centuries in novels, films, cartoons and newspaper headlines; it has become a myth whose horrors can be evoked in a single word, a name. Turney shows how the myth shaped-or perhaps reflected-public response to mechanist...

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COMMENTARIES Five Commentaries : Looking to the Future

E quity is at the core of the question posed. Broadly speaking, technology cannot be used effectively or ethically unless it is used widely and equitably among all groups in our society and—thanks to technology itself—our increasingly smaller world. Equity of use is critical to ensuring that technology has widespread and effective impacts on learning, communication, and community. In addition, ...