THE EMBRYO PROJECT ENCYCLOPEDIA
Recording and contextualizing the science of embryos, development, and reproduction
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Aug 11, 2025
In 1999, John Ancona Robertson, a researcher who studied bioethics and law, published “Ethics and Policy in Embryonic Stem Cell Research,” hereafter…
Aug 11, 2025
In 2003, Sheila Singh and colleagues published “Identification of a Cancer Stem Cell in Human Brain Tumors” in the journal Cancer Research. The study…
Aug 10, 2025
The Human Genome Diversity Project, or HGDP, was an effort led by US-based scientists to collect DNA from members of Indigenous communities living…
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Reproductive Health Arizona (RHAZ) records the history of reproductive health, medicine, and biology in Arizona.
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The Embryo Project is supported by the National Science Foundation, Arizona State University, Center for Biology and Society, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, and the MBL WHOI Library.
