Comme je passe par là, je voulais partager un truc que j'ai appris à propos du congrès international d'histoire des sciences tenu à Londres en 1931.
Ce congrès est un moment important de l'historiographie dans ce domaine. C'est à cette occasion qu'une historiographie marxiste des sciences a pu se mettre en scène et que la divergence d'approche internalisme/externalisme a pu se cristaliser (voir infra)
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'Now, scientists have discovered that Leonardo did detailed experiments that sought to illuminate the nature of gravity a century before Galileo and some two centuries ahead of Newton’s making its investigation an exact science. The scientists’ study of his gravitational ideas and experimentation was published earlier this month in the journal “Leonardo.”
Madalena made this illustration for a piece I wrote about Charles Lindbergh, who designed a perfusion pump for organ transplantation and published it in JEM 1935.
https://madalenaparreira.com
#HistoryScience #HistoryOfScience #ScientificIllustration
https://rupress.org/jem/article/62/3/409/4051/AN-APPARATUS-FOR-THE-CULTURE-OF-WHOLE-ORGANS
In which Charles Darwin tries to predict the book-buying public's taste.
(from Janet Browne's "Charles Darwin, The Power of Place").
#books #reading #bookworm #Evolution #Darwin #CharlesDarwin #HistoryOfScience #HistoryScience
Thirty years ago, in November 1992, Ishida, Honjo and their collaborators reported the discovery of the #PD1 gene in @embojournal
https://www.embopress.org/doi/abs/10.1002/j.1460-2075.1992.tb05481.x
I spoke with Tasuku Honjo, Pierre Golstein (whose team first cloned #CTLA4) & Facundo Batista about the discovery earlier this year.
The initial project had absolutely nothing to do with checkpoints or #immunotherapy
Listen to the full #EMBOPodcast episode at the link below or on pretty much any podcast app
#Immunology #HistoryScience #Cancer #CellDeath
https://www.embo.org/podcasts/from-cell-death-to-cancer-immunotherapy/
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