Chadarevian, Soraya de (Author)
Journal of the History of Biology
Volume: 51
Issue: 4
Pages: 631-655
Edition Details: Part of a Series: Genomics and the Human Genome Project
Language: English
A common account sees the human genome sequencing project of the 1990s as a "natural outgrowth" of the deciphering of the double helical structure of DNA in the 1950s. The essay aims to complicate this neat narrative by putting the spotlight on the field of human chromosome research that flourished at the same time as molecular biology. It suggests that we need to consider both endeavors - the human cytogeneticists who collected samples and looked down the microscope and the molecular biologists who probed the molecular mechanisms of gene function - to understand the rise of the human genome sequencing project and the current genomic practices. In particular, it proposes that what has often been described as the "molecularization" of cytogenetics could equally well be viewed as the turn of molecular biologists to human and medical genetics - a field long occupied by cytogeneticists. These considerations also have implications for the archives that are constructed for future historians and policy makers.
...MoreArticle Eric D. Green; Christopher R. Donohue (2018) Special Issue Editors' Introduction: "Genomics and the Human Genome Project". Journal of the History of Biology (pp. 625-629).
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