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Charles Manning Child (1869-1954)
By: Mary E. Sunderland
| Published: Oct 23, 2007
Born in Ypsilanti, Michigan, on 2 February 1869, Charles Manning Child was the only surviving child of Mary Elizabeth and Charles Chauncey Child, a…
Polarity (Biology)Life cycles (Biology)MetabolismPhysiologyBiography
The Origin of Species: "Chapter Thirteen: Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology: Embryology: Rudimentary Organs" (1859), by Charles R. Darwin
By: M. Elizabeth Barnes
| Published: Jul 11, 2014
Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology: Embryology: Rudimentary Organs is the thirteenth chapter of Charles Darwin's book The Origin of…
LiteratureEvolutionEvolution (Biology)Natural selectionEmbryology
Thomas Joseph King Jr. (1921-2000)
By: Sean Cohmer
| Published: Jan 01, 2012
Thomas Joseph King Jr. was a developmental biologist who, with fellow scientist Robert Briggs, pioneered a method of transplanting nuclei from…
PeopleNuclear Transfer TechniquesBiographyNuclear TransplantationCancer
"Programmed Cell Death-II. Endocrine Potentiation of the Breakdown of the Intersegmental Muscles of Silkmoths" (1964), by Richard A. Lockshin and Carroll M. Williams
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: Apr 27, 2011
Richard A. Lockshin's 1963 PhD dissertation on cell death in insect metamorphosis was conducted under the supervision of Harvard insect physiologist…
LiteratureExperimentsPublicationsSilkwormsHormones
“Fetal Programming and Adult Health” (2001), by Kevin M. Godfrey and David J.P. Barker
By: Carrie Keller
| Published: Feb 01, 2021
In 2001, Kevin M. Godfrey and David J.P. Barker published the article “Fetal Programming and Adult Health” in Public Health Nutrition, where they…
LiteraturePregnancy--ComplicationsFetal heart--AbnormalitiesMaternal-Fetal ExchangeMetabolism in pregnancy
Progestin: Synthetic Progesterone
By: Aliya Buttar, Sheraden Seward
| Published: Nov 17, 2008
Progestin is a synthetic form of progesterone, a naturally occurring hormone, which plays an important role in the female reproductive cycle. During…
TechnologyProgesteroneReproductionContraception
"Control of Corneal Differentiation by Extracellular Materials" (1974), by Stephen Meier and Elizabeth D. Hay
By: Kevin Gleason
| Published: Jun 19, 2017
In 1974, Elizabeth Dexter Hay and Stephen Meier in the US conducted an experiment that demonstrated that the extracellular matrix, the mesh-like…
Extracellular matrixCollagenCorneaEpitheliumEmbryos
“How Colonization by Microbiota in Early Life Shapes the Immune System” (2016), by Thomas Gensollen, Shankar S. Iyer, Dennis L. Kasper, Richard S. Blumberg
By: Maggie Zhou
| Published: Aug 21, 2024
In 2016, researcher Thomas Gensollen and colleagues published “How Colonization by Microbiota in Early Life Shapes the Immune System,” hereafter, “…
MicrobiotaImmune SystemImmune ResponseImmune System DisordersMicrobiomes
Eric Wieschaus (1947- )
By: May Catherine, Justin M. Wolter
| Published: Apr 29, 2014
Eric Wieschaus studied how genes cause fruit fly larvae to develop in the US and Europe during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Using the…
Drosophila melanogasterGeneticsGenetic Screening
Walter Jakob Gehring (1939-2014)
By: Joe Brinkman
| Published: Dec 22, 2014
Walter Jakob Gehring discovered the homeobox, a DNA segment found in a specific cluster of genes that determine the body plan of animals, plants, and…
Homeobox genesDrosophilaGeneticsGenesGenes, Homeobox