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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…
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Osborne Overton Heard (1890-1983)
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 28, 2010
Osborne O. Heard was a noted Carnegie embryological model maker for the Department of Embryology at The Carnegie Institute of Washington (CIW),…
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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…
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Adolf Ziegler
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 10, 2009
The scientific field of embryology experienced great growth in scope and direction in Germany from approximately 1850 to 1920. During this time,…
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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…
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A History of Embryology (1959), by Joseph Needham
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 28, 2010
In 1931 embryologist and historian Joseph Needham published a well-received three-volume treatise titled Chemical Embryology. The first four chapters…
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