For every Marie Curie or Rosalind Franklin whose story has been told, hundreds of female scientists remain unknown to the public at... more
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En la década de 1880, una pequeña niña Afro-Dominicana pasaba sus días vendiendo dulces en las calles de San Pedro... more
In the 1880s, a small Afro-Dominican girl spent her days selling sweets on the streets of San Pedro de Macorís,... more
Lisa See’s novel Lady Tan’s Circle of Women is inspired by a medical textbook published in 1511 by an eminent... more
In 1960 Marthe Gautier left the lab where she had discovered the genetic cause of Down syndrome, and went on... more
In the mid-1950s Marthe Gautier, a young French doctor and cytogenetics researcher, led a cutting-edge experiment to investigate the cause... more
In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we are telling the story of Margarethe Hilferding, a pioneering psychoanalyst and physician... more
Dr. Katalin Karikó, a Hungarian-born biochemist, dedicated her life’s work to messenger RNA, which she always believed had the potential... more
At this festive time of year, when many people are bringing trees into their homes to decorate for the holidays,... more
Two female botanists – Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter – made headlines for riding the rapids of the Colorado River... more
Carolyn Beatrice Parker came from a family of doctors and academics and worked during World War II as a physicist... more
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