Profile of Claire Fraser, Ph.D.

J. Barry McKernan, MD, PhD—A Profile

Dr. Barry McKernan, who performed the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the United States, has followed a surgical trail that truly represents the spirit of the American surgeon. He completed his undergraduate studies at a time when American medicine, American surgery, and clinically related research were beginning their Golden Age. The interval was the mid 1960s. Medical students and gradu...

Claire Walczak

favourite plants. Linnaeus’s affection for it has been well documented: he used it as a mattress and cover when he slept in woods during his journeys across Sweden. This month also sees the opening of a new exhibition to celebrate Linnaeus at the Natural History Museum, Systema Metropolis, exploring the unseen wildlife in London from a number of sites. Created by the US artist, Mark Dion, it re...

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Profile of Mary-Claire King, 2014 Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement in Medical Science awardee.

On September 19, 2014, Mary-Claire King received the 2014 Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science given for exceptional leadership and citizenship in biomedical science. Her citation read: “For bold, imaginative, and diverse contributions to medical science and human rights — she discovered the BRCA1 gene locus that causes hereditary breast cancer and deployed DNA strategie...