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  1. An introduction to bibliographic essays about histories of infectious disease.

    Article • Isis, September 2023, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Neeraja Sankaran

  2. Review of the different origins of infectious diseases

    Article • Faculty Reviews, January 2022, F1000Research

    Dr Neeraja Sankaran

  3. Introduction: Diversifying the historiography of bacteriophages

    Article • Notes and Records the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, November 2020, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Neeraja Sankaran

  4. On the historical significance of Beijerinck and his contagium vivum fluidum for modern virology

    Article • History & Philosophy of the Life Sciences, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Neeraja Sankaran

  5. How Seeing Became Knowing: The Role of the Electron Microscope in Shaping the Modern Definition of Viruses

    Article • Journal of the History of Biology, June 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Neeraja Sankaran

  6. The RNA World at Thirty: A Look Back with its Author

    Article • Journal of Molecular Evolution, November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Neeraja Sankaran

  7. Stage-hands, make-up artists, and other backstage characters in the drama of science

    Article • History & Philosophy of the Life Sciences, November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Neeraja Sankaran

  8. Andrewes's christmas fairy tale: atypical thinking about cancer aetiology in 1935

    Article • Notes and Records the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, March 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Neeraja Sankaran

  9. When viruses were not in style: Parallels in the histories of chicken sarcoma viruses and bacteriophages

    Article • Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, December 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Neeraja Sankaran

  10. How the discovery of ribozymes cast RNA in the roles of both chicken and egg in origin-of-life theories

    Article • Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, December 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Neeraja Sankaran

  11. The bacteriophage, its role in immunology: how Macfarlane Burnet’s phage research shaped his scientific style

    Article • Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, December 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Neeraja Sankaran

  12. Mutant Bacteriophages, Frank Macfarlane Burnet, and the Changing Nature of “Genespeak” in the 1930s

    Article • Journal of the History of Biology, August 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Neeraja Sankaran

  13. Stepping-stones to One-step Growth: Frank Macfarlane Burnet's Role in Elucidating the Viral Nature of the Bacteriophages

    Article • Historical Records of Australian Science, January 2008, CSIRO Publishing

    Dr Neeraja Sankaran