Neeraja Sankaran
Biographic Data
| ID | 1074520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neeraja Sankaran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neeraja |
| FAMILY NAME | Sankaran |
| SIGNATURE | SANKARAN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ashoka University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3729-0243 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Scholarship in the Time of Covid-19
DNA translated
In 1871, the Swiss physiological chemist Friedrich Miescher published the results of a detailed chemical analysis of pus cells, in which he showed that the nuclei of these cells contained a hitherto unknown phosphorus-rich chemical which he named ‘nuclein’ for its specific localisation. Published in German, ‘Ueber Die Chemische Zusammensetzung Der Eiterzellen’, [On the Chemical Composition of Pus Cells] Medicinisch-Chemische Untersuchungen (1871)…
From obstacle to lynchpin
The phenomenon of bacteriophage lysogeny has played a vital role in understanding the nature of viruses more generally. Discovered in 1920, the phenomenon was first wielded by its discoverers as a challenge to the idea that bacteriophages might be autonomous infectious agents of exogenous origin, namely viruses. But by the 1950s, lysogeny had come to be understood as a key mechanism through which some bacteriophages interacted with their bacteria…
Introduction
The essays in this special issue draw on a bank of diverse primary and secondary sources in different languages, to offer novel perspectives on the different directions that research on or with bacteriophages—bacterial viruses—has evolved over the century since they were first discovered. Looking beyond the established historical accounts of the discovery of the bacteriophages and their role as a tool in founding molecular biology, although these…
On the historical significance of Beijerinck and his contagium vivum fluidum for modern virology
Andrewes's christmas fairy tale
This paper uses a short ‘Christmas fairy-story for oncologists’ sent by Christopher Andrewes with a 1935 letter to Peyton Rous as the centrepiece of a reflection on the state of knowledge and speculation about the viral aetiology of cancer in the 1930s. Although explicitly not intended for public circulation at the time, the fairy-story merits publication for its significance in the history of ideas about viruses, which are taken for granted toda…
Stage-hands, make-up artists, and other backstage characters in the drama of science
Beastly Encounters of the Raj
Many and varied themes about the relationships between domesticated animals and humans in India are to be found within the six chapters that constitute Beastly Encounters of the Raj, but sacred cows are not among them. Rightly pointing out that cattle and religion are inextricably linked, especially in the popular western imagination but also in histories of South Asia (145), Saurabh Mishra has consciously moved beyond the religious to examine di…
Far from depleted
There's just no deleting Darwin, not really. Even Peter Bowler, the title to whose delightful book purports to do just that, is quick to add in the subtitle that he is only imagining the history of science without Darwin. The sixty-three essays written by a like number of scholars, Bowler among them (some articles are co-authored and a handful of authors have contributed to more than one essay) in the recently published Cambridge Encyclopedia of …
When viruses were not in style
Breaking with the self
How the discovery of ribozymes cast RNA in the roles of both chicken and egg in origin-of-life theories
The bacteriophage, its role in immunology
DNA translated
In 1871, the Swiss physiological chemist Friedrich Miescher published the results of a detailed chemical analysis of pus cells, in which he showed that the nuclei of these cells contained a hitherto unknown phosphorus-rich chemical which he named ‘nuclein’ for its specific localisation. Published in German, ‘Ueber Die Chemische Zusammensetzung Der Eiterzellen’, [On the Chemical Composition of Pus Cells] Medicinisch-Chemische Untersuchungen (1871)…
When viruses were not in style
The bacteriophage, its role in immunology
The bacteriophage, its role in immunology
How the discovery of ribozymes cast RNA in the roles of both chicken and egg in origin-of-life theories
Breaking with the self
When viruses were not in style
Far from depleted
There's just no deleting Darwin, not really. Even Peter Bowler, the title to whose delightful book purports to do just that, is quick to add in the subtitle that he is only imagining the history of science without Darwin. The sixty-three essays written by a like number of scholars, Bowler among them (some articles are co-authored and a handful of authors have contributed to more than one essay) in the recently published Cambridge Encyclopedia of …
Andrewes's christmas fairy tale
This paper uses a short ‘Christmas fairy-story for oncologists’ sent by Christopher Andrewes with a 1935 letter to Peyton Rous as the centrepiece of a reflection on the state of knowledge and speculation about the viral aetiology of cancer in the 1930s. Although explicitly not intended for public circulation at the time, the fairy-story merits publication for its significance in the history of ideas about viruses, which are taken for granted toda…
Stage-hands, make-up artists, and other backstage characters in the drama of science
Beastly Encounters of the Raj
Many and varied themes about the relationships between domesticated animals and humans in India are to be found within the six chapters that constitute Beastly Encounters of the Raj, but sacred cows are not among them. Rightly pointing out that cattle and religion are inextricably linked, especially in the popular western imagination but also in histories of South Asia (145), Saurabh Mishra has consciously moved beyond the religious to examine di…
On the historical significance of Beijerinck and his contagium vivum fluidum for modern virology
From obstacle to lynchpin
The phenomenon of bacteriophage lysogeny has played a vital role in understanding the nature of viruses more generally. Discovered in 1920, the phenomenon was first wielded by its discoverers as a challenge to the idea that bacteriophages might be autonomous infectious agents of exogenous origin, namely viruses. But by the 1950s, lysogeny had come to be understood as a key mechanism through which some bacteriophages interacted with their bacteria…
Introduction
The essays in this special issue draw on a bank of diverse primary and secondary sources in different languages, to offer novel perspectives on the different directions that research on or with bacteriophages—bacterial viruses—has evolved over the century since they were first discovered. Looking beyond the established historical accounts of the discovery of the bacteriophages and their role as a tool in founding molecular biology, although these…
DNA translated
In 1871, the Swiss physiological chemist Friedrich Miescher published the results of a detailed chemical analysis of pus cells, in which he showed that the nuclei of these cells contained a hitherto unknown phosphorus-rich chemical which he named ‘nuclein’ for its specific localisation. Published in German, ‘Ueber Die Chemische Zusammensetzung Der Eiterzellen’, [On the Chemical Composition of Pus Cells] Medicinisch-Chemische Untersuchungen (1871)…
Scholarship in the Time of Covid-19
Biology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · History (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Virology (4 works)