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"The Potency of the First Two Cleavage Cells in Echinoderm Development. Experimental Production of Partial and Double Formations" (1891-1892), by Hans Driesch
By: Megan Kearl
| Published: Jan 01, 2012
Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch was a late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century philosopher and developmental biologist. In the spring of 1891 Driesch…
ExperimentsPublicationsSea Urchins
“Child Development in the Context of Disaster, War, and Terrorism: Pathways of Risk and Resilience” (2012), by Ann S. Masten and Angela J. Narayan
By: Hira Ali
| Published: Nov 15, 2017
In 2012 Ann S. Masten and Angela J. Narayan published the article “Child Development in the Context of Disaster, War, and Terrorism: Pathways of Risk…
LiteraturePost-Traumatic Stress DisorderChildren and warChild disaster victimsPost-traumatic stress disorder in children
Viktor Hamburger (1900-2001)
By: Adam R. Navis
| Published: Nov 08, 2007
Viktor Hamburger was an embryologist who focused on neural development. His scientific career stretched from the early 1920s as a student of Hans…
PeopleHamburger, Viktor, 1900-2001Nerve Growth FactorBiographyNeurons
Franz Julius Keibel (1861-1929)
By: M. Elizabeth Barnes
| Published: Jun 21, 2014
Franz Keibel studied the embryos of humans and other animals in Europe at the turn of the twentieth century. He lived and worked in several different…
Embryology
The Carapacial Ridge of Turtles
By: Guido Caniglia
| Published: Jan 01, 2012
Two main elements characterize the skeletal morphology of turtles: the carapace and the plastron. For a turtle, the carapacial ridge begins in the…
TurtlesMorphology (Animals)EmbryosGerm CellsEmbryology
Impact of Air Pollution on Reproductive Health” (1999), by Radim Srám
By: Ajeet Bains
| Published: Jun 30, 2020
In 1999, researcher Radim Srám, sometimes spelled Radim Šrám, published his article “Impact of Air Pollution on Reproductive Health” in the journal…
LiteratureEffect of air pollution onPollutantsPollutionAir--Pollution
"Development, Plasticity and Evolution of Butterfly Eyespot Patterns" (1996), by Paul M. Brakefield et al.
By: Yawen Zou
| Published: Sep 10, 2013
Paul M. Brakefield and his research team in Leiden, the Netherlands, examined the development, plasticity, and evolution of butterfly eyespot…
ButterfliesDevelopmental BiologyPhenotypic plasticityGenotype-environment interactionEvolutionary developmental biology
"Cellular death in morphogenesis of the avian wing" (1962), by John W. Saunders Jr., et al.
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: Mar 07, 2014
In the early 1960s, John W. Saunders Jr., Mary T. Gasseling, and Lilyan C. Saunders in the US investigated how cells die in the developing limbs of…
Cell DeathChickens--EmbryosApoptosisExperiments
“The Emergence of Developmental Psychopathology” (1984), by Dante Cicchetti
By: Hira Ali
| Published: Oct 24, 2017
In 1984, Dante Cicchetti published “The Emergence of Developmental Psychopathology,” an article in which he argued that the previously amorphous…
LiteratureChild Maltreatmentchild psychopathologyClinical health psychologyHarvard University
"Experiments on the Development of Chick and Duck Embryos, Cultivated in vitro" (1932), by Conrad Hal Waddington
By: Adam R. Navis
| Published: Nov 08, 2007
Conrad Hal Waddington's "Experiments on the Development of Chick and Duck Embryos, Cultivated in vitro," published in 1932 in Philosophical…
Waddington, C. H. (Conrad Hal), 1905-1975ExperimentsChicksDucks