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Jan Swammerdam, known as the founder of the preformation theory based on his extensive research on insect development, was born on 12 February 1637…
PeopleBiographyLandrum Brewer Shettles is remembered as an important contributor to early in vitro fertilization research in the United States as well as a prolific…
PeopleFertilization in VitroReproductionBiographyFertilizationMuriel Wheldale Onslow studied flowers in England with genetic and biochemical techniques in the early twentieth century. Working with geneticist…
PeopleHeredityBiochemistryEpistasis (Genetics)GeneticsZhang Lizhu is a Chinese gynecologist and researcher. For most of her career, she worked in the Peking Medical College Third Hospital, renamed in…
PeopleReproductionBiographyFertilizationBernard Nathanson was an obstetrician and gynecologist in New York City, New York, who argued for, and later against, women's rights to abortion.…
PeopleObstetriciansGynecologistsAbortionUltrasonics in obstetricsJohn Spangler Nicholas, an American biologist, was born on 10 March 1895 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. He was the only child of Elizabeth Ellen…
PeopleBiographyMammalsAmphibiansHenrietta Lacks, born Loretta Pleasant, had terminal cervical cancer in 1951, and was diagnosed at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore,…
PeopleAfrican American History MonthWomen in medicine--HistoryMedicine--United States--HistorybioethicsPhysician and pathologist Elizabeth Maplesden Ramsey was a member of the Carnegie Institution of Washington (CIW) for thirty-nine years. The…
PeopleBiographyPrimatesLeo Loeb developed an experimental approach to studying cancer and pioneered techniques for tissue culture and in vitro tissue transplantation which…
PeopleMarine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.)Embryology, ExperimentalTissue cultureEmbryosFrederik Ruysch made anatomical drawings and collected and preserved human specimens, many of which were infants and fetuses, in the Netherlands…
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