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THE EMBRYO PROJECT ENCYCLOPEDIA

Recording and contextualizing the science of embryos, development, and reproduction

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“Children’s Attitudes Toward Peers With Unintelligible Speech Associated With Cleft Lip and/or Palate” (2017), by Alice Lee, Fiona E. Gibbon, and Kimberley Spivey

Apr 16, 2024

In May 2017, Alice Lee, Fiona E. Gibbon, and Kimberley Spivey published “Children’s Attitudes Toward Peers With Unintelligible Speech Associated With…

Cleft Palate Cleft Lip Cleft palate children

Smile Train (1999–)

Feb 06, 2024

Smile Train is a non-profit organization that Brian Mullaney and Charles Wang founded in 1999 in New York City, New York, that provides resources and…

Cleft Palate Cleft palate children Cleft palate—psychological aspects

“Microsurgical Vasovasostomy: The Microdot Technique of Precision Suture Placement” (1998), by Marc Goldstein, Philip Shihua Li, and Gerald J. Matthews

Nov 21, 2023

In 1998, urologists Marc Goldstein, Philip Shihua Li, and Gerald J. Matthews published “Microsurgical Vasovasostomy: The Microdot Technique of…

Vasectomy Vasectomy Reversal Vasovasostomy

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