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Making Visible Embryos (2008- ), by Tatjana Buklijaz and Nick Hopwood
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 25, 2010
Making Visible Embryos is a 2008 online exhibition of embryos authored and designed by Tatjana Buklijaz and Nick Hopwood who work in the Department…
OrganizationOrganizationsEducation
Inducing Fertilization and Development in Sand Dollars
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 24, 2010
Sand dollars are common marine invertebrates in the phylum Echinodermata and share the same class (Echinoidea) as sea urchins. They have served as…
Sand DollarsFertilizationInvertebrates
Ernest Everett Just (1883-1941)
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 16, 2010
Ernest Everett Just was an early twentieth century American experimental embryologist involved in research at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)…
FertilizationBiographyInvertebrates
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1834-1919)
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 16, 2010
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel was a prominent comparative anatomist and active lecturer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries…
PeopleHaeckel, Ernst, 1834-1919Biological EvolutionBiographyEvolution
Ziegler Wax Embryo Models
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 15, 2010
Three-dimensional anatomical models have long been essential to the learning of science and lend a sense of "control" to those practicing in the…
TechnologyReproductionModelsAnatomy
Artificial Parthenogenesis and Fertilization (1913), by Jacques Loeb
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 15, 2010
Jacques Loeb is best known for his embryological work investigating parthenogenesis in invertebrates. Artificial Parthenogenesis and Fertilization is…
LiteratureParthenogenesisPublicationsFertilization
Hans Spemann (1869-1941)
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 15, 2010
Hans Spemann was an experimental embryologist best known for his transplantation studies and as the originator of the "organizer" concept. One of his…
PeopleSpemann, Hans, 1869-1941TransplantationBiography
Frank Rattray Lillie (1870-1947)
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jul 22, 2009
Frank R. Lillie was born in Toronto, Canada, on 27 June 1870. His mother was Emily Ann Rattray and his father was George Waddell Little, an…
PeopleLillie, Frank Rattray, 1870-1947BiographyLaboratoriesCell Lineage
Gustav Jacob Born (1851-1900)
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jul 22, 2009
Gustav Jacob Born was an experimental embryologist whose original work with amphibians served as the platform for his wax-plate method of embryo…
PeopleTransplantationBiographyAmphibians
Carnegie Stages
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jul 17, 2009
Historically the exact age of human embryo specimens has long perplexed embryologists. With the menstrual history of the mother often unknown or not…
Mall, Franklin P. (Franklin Paine), 1862-1917Human DevelopmentCarnegie Institution of Washington