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The Roslin Institute (1993- )
By: Zane Bartlett
| Published: Sep 29, 2014
The Roslin Institute was established in 1993 in the village of Roslin, Scotland, as an independent research center by the Biotechnology and…
OrganizationCloningGenetic EngineeringHuman CloningOrganizations
The Pasteur Institute (1887- )
By: Valerie Racine
| Published: Aug 19, 2014
L'Institut Pasteur (The Pasteur Institute) is a non-profit private research institution founded by Louis Pasteur on 4 June 1887 in Paris, France. The…
OrganizationBacteriaGenetic regulationOperonsMolecular genetics
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (1890- )
By: Rachel Gur-Arie
| Published: Jun 21, 2014
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is a non-profit research institution that specializes in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, quantitative…
OrganizationWatson, James D., 1928-EugenicsBacteriophagesBrenner, Sydney
The Human Genome Project (1990-2003)
By: Tian Zhu, Tito Carvalho
| Published: May 06, 2014
The Human Genome Project (HGP) was an international scientific effort to sequence the entire human genome, that is, to produce a map of the base…
OrganizationsHuman Genome ProjectNational Center for Human Genome Research (U.S.)National Human Genome Research Institute (U.S.)Sequence Analysis, DNA
The Singapore Bioethics Advisory Committee
By: Ceara O'Brien
| Published: Mar 14, 2014
Established in tandem with Singapore's national Biomedical Sciences Initiatives, the Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC) was established by the…
OrganizationsSingaporeStem Cellsin vitroethics
The US President's Council on Bioethics (2001-2009)
By: Ceara O'Brien
| Published: Feb 18, 2014
The US President's Council on Bioethics was an organization headquartered in Washington D.C. that was chartered to advise then US President George W…
OrganizationbioethicsAdvisory boardsStem CellsEmbryonic Stem Cells
Seed Banking 1979-1994
By: Marci Baranski
| Published: Jan 28, 2014
In the early twentieth century, scientists and agriculturalists collected plants in greenhouses, botanical gardens, and fields. Seed collection…
ContextGermplasm resources, PlantGermplasm resources, Plant--StorageAgrobiodiversityCrops
Seed Collection and Plant Genetic Diversity, 1900-1979
By: Marci Baranski
| Published: Nov 01, 2013
Farmers have long relied on genetic diversity to breed new crops, but in the early 1900s scientists began to study the importance of plant genetic…
ContextGermplasm resources, PlantGermplasm resources, Plant--StorageAgrobiodiversityCrops
Human Betterment Foundation (1928-1942)
By: Jill Briggs
| Published: Jul 10, 2013
In 1928 Ezra Seymour Gosney founded the non-profit Human Betterment Foundation (HBF) in Pasadena, California to support the research and publication…
OrganizationCaliforniaInvoluntary SterilizationSterilization (Birth control)Human reproduction
Oregon State Board of Eugenics
By: Cera R. Lawrence
| Published: Apr 22, 2013
In 1917 the Oregon State Legislature, in Salem, Oregon, passed a bill titled, 'To Prevent Procreation of Certain Classes in Oregon.' Passage of the…
OrganizationEugenicsOregonInvoluntary SterilizationSterilization (Birth control)