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Happy International women’s day. To celebrate #IWD we are sharing a series of tweets with the profile of different #WomeninScience who through the ages have played a significant, but often forgotten role, in biomedical science and healthcare
Our first profile is that of Agelina Fanny Hesse (1850-1934), an overlooked heroine of modern microbiology who was the first to propose the use of arar, in 1881 to grow bacteria which is now used everywhere as a means to study and identify microbes. whatisbiotechnology.org/index.php/exhi…
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Next is Rosalind Franklin, the x-ray crystallographer who helped to uncover the double-helix structure of DNA. JD Bernal declared her x-ray photos of DNA to be ‘amongst the most beautiful photos of any substance ever taken’. whatisbiotechnology.org/index.php/peop…
