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Alfred Day Hershey (1908–1997)
By: Victoria Hernandez
| Published: Apr 29, 2019
During the twentieth century in the United States, Alfred Day Hershey studied phages, or viruses that infect bacteria, and experimentally verified…
Hershey, A. D. (Alfred Day), 1908-Bacteriophage lambdaPhage lambdaBacteriophages--GeneticsBacteriophages
Francis Harry Compton Crick (1916-2004)
By: Amanda Andrei
| Published: Nov 01, 2013
Francis Harry Compton Crick, who co-discovered the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in 1953 in Cambridge, England, also developed The Central…
DNAChromosomesNucleotide sequenceNucleic AcidsMolecular Biology
Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945)
By: Mary E. Sunderland
| Published: Sep 25, 2007
Although best known for his work with the fruit fly, for which he earned a Nobel Prize and the title "The Father of Genetics," Thomas Hunt Morgan's…
PeopleMorgan, Thomas Hunt, 1866-1945Genetics, ExperimentalNobel Prize winnersDrosophila melanogaster
Apoptosis in Embryonic Development
By: Zane Bartlett
| Published: Jun 08, 2017
Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is a mechanism in embryonic development that occurs naturally in organisms. Apoptosis is a different process…
ApoptosisGenetic regulationCaenorhabditis elegansCellsGerm Cells
Hedgehog Signaling Pathway
By: Dorothy R. Haskett
| Published: Jul 30, 2015
The hedgehog signaling pathway is a mechanism that directs the development of embryonic cells in animals, from invertebrates to vertebrates. The…
EmbryologyEmbryosWieschaus, Eric F.Cellular signal transductionDrosophila melanogaster
The Notch Signaling Pathway in Embryogenesis
By: Justin Wolter
| Published: Mar 06, 2013
The Notch signaling pathway is a mechanism in animals by which adjacent cells communicate with each other, conveying spatial information and genetic…
EmbryologyDevelopmental BiologyEmbryosCell differentiationNotch genes
Telomerase in Human Development
By: Zane Bartlett
| Published: Mar 23, 2015
Telomerase is an enzyme that regulates the lengths of telomeres in the cells of many organisms, and in humans it begins to function int the early…
TelomeraseTelomereDNAMolecular BiologySomatic embryogenesis
Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak's Telomere and Telomerase Experiments (1982-1989)
By: Zane Bartlett
| Published: Mar 24, 2015
Experiments conducted by Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak from 1982 to 1989 provided theories of how the ends of chromosomes,…
TelomereGreider, Carol W.Chromosome replicationTelomeraseDNA
Harald zur Hausen (1936–2023)
By: Grace Kim
| Published: Jul 24, 2017
Harald zur Hausen studied viruses and discovered that certain strains of the human papilloma virus (HPV), a sexually transmitted disease, can cause…
Cervix uteri--CancerHuman Papilloma VirusPapillomavirusesGenital WartsCondylomata Acuminata
Camillo Golgi's Black Reaction for Staining Neurons
By: Isra Mishqat
| Published: May 26, 2017
In 1873 Italy, Camillo Golgi created the black reaction technique, which enabled scientists to stain and view the structure of neurons, the…
TechnologyNeuronsAxonsDendritesSilver Nitrate