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Ernest Everett Just was an early twentieth century American experimental embryologist involved in research at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)…
PeopleFertilizationBiographyInvertebratesAs one of the first to work at the Carnegie Institution of Washington Department of Embryology, Warren Harmon Lewis made a number of contributions to…
PeopleBiographyEducationCarnegie Institution of WashingtonSir John Bertrand Gurdon further developed nuclear transplantation, the technique used to clone organisms and to create stem cells, while working in…
Cell nuclei--TransplantationCellsCloningStem CellsEmbryonic Stem CellsWilhelm His, Sr. was born on 9 July 1831 in Basel, Switzerland, to Katharina La Roche and Eduard His. He began his medical studies at Basel in 1849…
PeopleBiographyHuman DevelopmentJacques Loeb experimented on embryos in Europe and the United States at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Among…
PeopleParthenogenesisBiographyJohn D. Gearhart is a renowned American developmental geneticist best known for leading the Johns Hopkins University research team that first…
PeopleStem CellsGeneticsBiographyKatharine Dexter McCormick, who contributed the majority of funding for the development of the oral contraceptive pill, was born to Josephine and…
PeopleContraceptionethicsReproductionReproductive RightsAlexis Carrel was a doctor and researcher who studied tissue cultures. He continued Ross Granville Harrison's research and produced many…
Tissue Culture TechniquesBiographyTissue cultureAlthough educated as a scientist who studied with both August Weismann and Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch was first employed as a…
BiographySea UrchinsCraig C. Mello is an American developmental biologist and Nobel Laureate, who helped discover RNA interference (RNAi). Along with his colleague…
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