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John Langdon Down (1828–1896)
By: Risa Aria Schnebly, Grace Fitzgerald
| Published: Aug 12, 2021
John Langdon Down studied medicine in England in the nineteenth century and was one of the first people to develop a complete description of the…
Down syndromeDevelopmental DisabilitiesPartial Trisomy 21 Down SyndromeTrisomyPartial Trisomy
Michael R. Harrison (1943– )
By: Risa Aria Schnebly, Brianna Ellis
| Published: Aug 04, 2021
Michael R. Harrison worked as a pediatric surgeon in the US throughout the late-twentieth century and performed many fetal surgeries, including one…
Birth DefectsAbnormalities, HumanPediatric surgeonsMyelomeningoceleSpinal Dysraphism
A Series of YouTube Videos Detailing the “CRISPR Babies” Experiment (2018), by He Jiankui
By: Risa Aria Schnebly, Brianna Ellis
| Published: Jul 31, 2021
In 2018, He Jiankui uploaded a series of videos to a YouTube channel titled “The He Lab” that detailed one of the first instances of a successful…
Literaturegene editingGenome EditingCRISPR (Genetics)CRISPR-associated protein 9
Sex Determination in Humans
By: Risa Aria Schnebly
| Published: Jul 16, 2021
In humans, sex determination is the process that determines the biological sex of an offspring and, as a result, the sexual characteristics that they…
Sex DeterminationGenetic sex determinationIntersex peopleDiscrimination against intersex peopleStevens, N. M. (Nettie Maria), 1861-1912
“A Two-Factor Hypothesis of Freezing Injury: Evidence from Chinese Hamster Tissue-Culture Cells” (1972), by Peter Mazur, Stanley Leibo, and Ernest Chu
By: Risa Aria Schnebly
| Published: Mar 02, 2021
In 1972, Peter Mazur, Stanley Leibo, and Ernest Chu published, “A Two-Factor Hypothesis of Freezing Injury: Evidence from Chinese Hamster Tissue-…
LiteratureCryonicsCryosurgeryMedicine--History--20th centuryOsmosis
Stanley Paul Leibo (1937–2014)
By: Risa Aria Schnebly
| Published: Feb 05, 2021
Stanley Paul Leibo studied the cryopreservation of embryos in the US in the twentieth century. Cryopreservation is a method of preserving biological…
Low temperature engineeringCryonicsScience and civilizationEmbryo transplantationCryotherapy
Revive & Restore’s Woolly Mammoth Revival Project
By: Risa Aria Schnebly
| Published: Jan 19, 2021
In 2015, Revive & Restore launched the Woolly Mammoth Revival Project with a goal of engineering a creature with genes from the woolly mammoth…
conservationAnimal diversity conservationWildlife conservationgene editingbioethics
Revive & Restore (2012– )
By: Risa Aria Schnebly
| Published: Dec 16, 2020
Revive and Restore is a California-based nonprofit that uses genetic engineering to help solve conservation problems, such as saving endangered…
OrganizationExtinction (Biology)MammothsMammuthusWoolly mammoth
Multiplex Automated Genome Engineering (MAGE)
By: Risa Aria Schnebly
| Published: Dec 10, 2020
Multiplex Automated Genome Engineering, or MAGE, is a genome editing technique that enables scientists to quickly edit an organism’s DNA to produce…
TechnologyGenetic EngineeringGenetic engineering industryGenetic epidemiologyGene libraries
Peter Mazur (1928–2015)
By: Risa Aria Schnebly
| Published: Oct 13, 2020
Peter Mazur was a researcher in the US who developed new ways of preserving biological material by freezing it, a process called cryopreservation. If…
Religion and science--HistoryMolecular weightsCryobiologyFreezingFrozen liquids