• A student points to research on a poster.

    Student Training at the Embryo Project

    Student training is one of the core missions of the Embryo Project. Students have written dozens of theses based on their research in the Embryo Project. Topics include stem cells, fertilization, genetic screening, and representations of development in textbooks. Here Cera Lawrence explains her research at a poster session. Read more...

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    Reproductive Health Arizona (RHAZ)

    Reproductive Health Arizona (RHAZ) is a project at Arizona State University. Launched in 2016, it aims to record the history of reproductive health, medicine, and biology in Arizona. To do so, it publishes encyclopedia articles, oral histories, maps, and other resources that tell historical stories about those topics and situate them in their historical contexts. All of those items are collected on this page. Read more...

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    Thomas Hunt Morgan

    Morgan may have won a Nobel Prize for his work on Drosophila genetics, but he was an embryologist by training and avocation. He made significant contributions to the study of regeneration and experimental embryology more generally. Read more...

  • Class of 1897. Embryology course students, both maile and female, pose for a photograph outside the MBL in 1897.

    1897 MBL Embryology Class

    The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, began in 1888 to offer opportunities for instruction and research in biological topics. As the lab grew, it added sets of lectures that made up courses in zoology, then botany, then physiology, and in 1893 what became the first Embryology Course. Read more...

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    F. R. Lillie's Diagram of Freemartins

    Original Painting of Freemartin Twins by K.Toda (1916) -- See Figure 4 (p 426) Lillie Jour Exp Zool. 23 (1917) / Given to B. H. Willier in March 1937 "To keep for posterity". Given to James D. Ebert in 1971. / "Wash Drawing" Given by Ebert to the Marine Biological Laboratory for the Laboratory's Rare Books Room in the Lillie / Building, December 1991. Read more...

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