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David Michael Rorvik (1944–)
By: Alysse Blight
| Published: Jul 05, 2018
David Michael Rorvik is a science journalist who publicized advancements in the field of reproductive medicine during the late twentieth century.…
Sex PreselectionScience JournalismFamily PlanningParenthoodFertilization
Sonja Vernes, et al.'s Experiments On the Gene Networks Affected by the Foxp2 Protein (2011)
By: Kat Fowler
| Published: May 30, 2017
In 2011, Sonja Vernes and Simon Fisher performed a series of experiments to determine which developmental processes are controlled by the mouse…
Gene regulatory networksLanguageLanguage AcquisitionNeuronsMotor ability
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (Élie Metchnikoff) (1845-1916)
By: Valerie Racine
| Published: Jul 05, 2014
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov studied phagocytes, immune function, and starfish embryos in Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.…
PhagocytesEmbryology, ExperimentalPhagocytosisEmbryologyImmunology
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
Charles Robert Cantor (1942- )
By: Alexis Abboud
| Published: Jun 11, 2015
Charles Robert Cantor helped sequence the human genome, and he developed methods to non-invasively determine the genes in human fetuses. Cantor…
Human Genome ProjectDNAfetal developmentFetusEmbryos
Regeneration
By: Mary E. Sunderland
| Published: Jun 10, 2009
Regeneration is a fascinating phenomenon. The fact that many organisms have the capacity to regenerate lost parts and even remake complete copies of…
Regeneration (Biology)Regeneration
The Business of Being Born (2008)
By: Jessica Cartwright
| Published: Jun 09, 2018
In 2008, Barranca Productions released a documentary called The Business of Being Born, detailing the topic of childbirth. Ricki Lake and Abby…
LiteratureChildbirthObstetricsParturitionDelivery (Obstetrics)
John George Children (1777–1852)
By: Brittany Kaminsky
| Published: Mar 25, 2018
John George Children described several species of insects and animals while working at the British Museum in London, England, in the eighteenth and…
Electric batteriesPythons
“The History of Twins, As a Criterion of the Relative Powers of Nature and Nurture” (1875), by Francis Galton
By: Mudhaffar Bahjat
| Published: Dec 19, 2017
In the article “The History of Twins, As a Criterion of the Relative Powers of Nature and Nurture,” Francis Galton describes his study of twins.…
LiteratureNature and nurtureGeneticsHeredityTwins
The Germ-Plasm: a Theory of Heredity (1893), by August Weismann
By: Yawen Zou
| Published: Jan 26, 2015
Friedrich Leopold August Weismann published Das Keimplasma: eine Theorie der Vererbung (The Germ-Plasm: a Theory of Heredity, hereafter The Germ-…
LiteratureWeismann, August, 1834-1914. Keimplasma. EnglishGerm CellsHeredityInheritance of acquired characters