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Category: From DNA to Beer

Explore some of the processes, problems, and potential inherent in technologies that use life.

Insulin now part of the plasmid is returned to the bacteria.

Partners in Illuminating Science

December 9, 2014 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Aline Lin,  co-founder and principal of Link Studio, an interactive design and medical illustration company.  Aline worked with the Exhibition

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Bacterial Sex: A building block for biotech

May 8, 2014 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers Diane Wendt and Mallory Warner from the Division of Medicine and Science at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History

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A human figure is dwarfed by a fanciful mushroom, mold, and bacterial jungle.

The Magic in Mold and Dirt

March 31, 2014 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers Diane Wendt and Mallory Warner from the Division of Medicine and Science at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

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A small closed glass jar with a metal cap and it's cardboard box.

Béla Schick and Serum Sickness

February 25, 2014 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers Diane Wendt and Mallory Warner from the Division of Medicine and Science at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

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Wooden board reading Magic Yeast

Beer, Yeast, and Louis Pasteur

January 24, 2014 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers Diane Wendt and Mallory Warner from the Division of Medicine and Science at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

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A divided wooden box containing syringes, ampules and a metal canister of vaccine.

Vessels, Tubes and Tanks

November 19, 2013 Circulating Now

Diane Wendt spoke today at the National Library of Medicine on “Vessels, Tubes and Tanks: Historic Biotechnologies at the Smithsonian.” Ms. Wendt is cocurator of

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From DNA to Beer: Harnessing Nature in Medicine and Industry

November 19, 2013 Circulating Now

By Erika Mills For some, the word “biotechnology” conjures images like super crops and cloned sheep—things created in a laboratory by manipulating DNA. While many

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What motivates a rare book collector? This week's Circulating Now blog post looks at the legacy of Thomas Windsor, whose lifetime investment in books enriched the growing collections of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office (now NLM!).
Maxine Singer (born 1931) is a leading molecular biologist and science advocate. She has made important contributions to the deciphering of the genetic code and to our understanding of RNA and DNA, the chemical elements of heredity. She helped organize the landmark Asilomar Conference in February 1975, at which scientists agreed to impose restrictions on the new and controversial science of recombinant DNA, and to develop a framework for removing these restrictions as knowledge of the science advanced. From 1988 to 2002, Dr. Singer was president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, a position in which she not only reinvigorated the Institution's scientific programs, but served as an effective champion of women in science, of improvements in science education, and of scientists who engage in public policy debates.
"To use what I saw—as a 12-year-old girl—my God-given talents to help someone. Medicine seemed to me to be the most noble of endeavors."— Dr. Bernadine Healy
#OTD in 1845, physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was born in Lennep, Germany. Fifty years later, his discovery of the #XRay (also known as the #Roentgen ray) changed the world and laid the foundation of modern radiology. In 1901, he was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him."
In celebration of #WomensHistoryMonth, we are featuring a portrait of Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee (1864-1940), best known as the founder of the Army Nurse Corps in 1901.
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