—Controversies and interests in a key episode in the history of biology and genetic engineering.— With the beginning of the 1970s, molecular biology entered a new stage with DNA recombination techniques and, therefore, the emergence of genetic...
—The history of a scientific milestone and the invisibility of women in science through the geographies of knowledge.— One of the key episodes in the development of molecular biology concerns the identification of the structure of DNA. The outcome...
—A deconstruction of ‘crucial’ experiments in the history of molecular biology.— In the field of life sciences, the twentieth century is usually characterised as the setting for a process of molecularisation. This process has been explained in...
—The biography of Charles Darwin’s cousin allows ‘uncomfortable’ episodes in the history of biology to be explored.— Francis Galton (1822-1911) was a multifaceted author, a polymatist who wrote on many topics, including meteorology, anthropology,...
—A journey through the origins of biology as a scientific discipline beyond myths and ‘founding fathers’.— Throughout the nineteenth century, there was an entire series of events that hastened the establishment of biology as an academic discipline....
The editorial team
The editorial team of Sabers en acció (@sabersaccio) is made up of research and teaching staff from the Institut Interuniversitari López Piñero (IILP) and the Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (SCHCT), as well as many other scholars from other academic institutions and research centres dedicated to the history of science, technology and medicine.
