...Yinghong Cheng Abstract In 1993, in response to the international Human Genome Project pioneered by the United States, the Chinese government began to sponsor national projects in conjunction with the international effort. The result of this scientific endeavor confirmed international geneticists...

... importance to rural well-being. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2021 2021 bioproperty China contentious politics developmental state genomics India regulation James C. Scott’s prodigious work has influenced numerous fields of inquiry, often profoundly, as documented...

..., and complex systems analysis” as a civic enterprise, is in many ways futurity, remarks Irani (p. 217). In this respect, I look forward to learning about Irani's coming analyses of how multiple and competing Indigenous futures might unfold as Indigenous scholars of genomics have underlined. 2 1...

... and Revolution in Twentieth-Century China. By LAURENCE SCHNEIDER. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Little eld, 2003. xi, 307 pp. $75.00 (cloth). Press releases announcing the completion of the Human Genome Project in April 2003 prominently noted the countries involved: France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, the United...

... sought to capitalize upon tropes of “Asia” and “Asian-ness.” With the SARS outbreak of 2003 extending beyond southeastern China to reach Southeast Asia, Singapore was able to capitalize by creating a “success” narrative of its own; in fact, a statue of the SARS genome features prominently in the Biopolis...

... as a sociological system of resource allocation. Chapter 4 turns to the Indian Genome Variation project, Aryan migration theory, and the early 2000s debate over caste as a form of racial oppression—a debate the Indian state “won” by arguing that caste is an internal Indian issue, separate from global issues...

... and their environment, Ronald J. Herring examines how Scott's work illuminates developments within the praxis of genomics—for instance, in the identification and regulation of purportedly legible genetically modified organisms—by examining efforts to codify and manage, and to subvert, genetic engineering of crop seeds...

.... The first mRNA vaccine authorization, for instance, occurred less than a year after Chinese scientists uploaded the first COVID-19 genome. It is fair to “[problematize] the way biomedical science and practice have become the hegemonic framework through which we understand pandemics, and through which...

... Lindblad-Toh . 2013 . “ The Genomic Signature of Dog Domestication Reveals Adaptation to a Starch-Rich Diet .” Nature 495 : 360 –64. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11837.html (accessed March 11, 2013 ). Benn Charles . 2002 . China's Golden Age: Everyday...

... in China. ” Clinical Infectious Diseases ciz865. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz865 . Bosse , Mirte , Hendrik-Jan Megens , Laurent A. F. Frantz , Ole Madsen , Greger Larson , Yogesh Paudel , Naomi Duijvesteijn , 2014 . “ Genomic Analysis Reveals Selection...

... inheritance. Mitochondria have a small genome of their own DNA. Unlike nuclear DNA, mtDNA reproduces by cloning and transmits maternally only, as part of the egg's cytoplasm. It changes only by mutation, which results in new, unique lineages. MtDNA mutations accumulate faster than those of nuclear DNA because...

... of the East [selected by J. I. Rodale] Pictures by Jeanyee Wong. Emmaus, Pa., Story Classics, 1952. 253 p. illus. HEDIN, SVEN. Karavan och tarantass; med hastar genom Asien. Redigerad av Gosta Montell. Stockholm, Bonnier, 1953. 286 p. illus. [5] THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY HEDIN, SVEN. Meine Hunde in Asien. Mit...