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"Induction and Patterning of the Primitive Streak, an Organizing Center of Gastrulation in the Amniote" (2004), by Takashi Mikawa, Alisa M. Poh, Kristine A. Kelly, Yasuo Ishii, and David E. Reese
By: Inbar Maayan
| Published: Apr 14, 2011
"Induction and Patterning of the Primitive Streak, an Organizing Center of Gastrulation in the Amniote," (hereafter referred to as "Induction")…
LiteraturePublicationsGastrulationChicksdifferentiation
Aristotle (384-322 BCE)
By: Dorothy Regan Haskett, Valerie Racine, Joanna Yang
| Published: Jul 07, 2016
Aristotle studied developing organisms, among other things, in ancient Greece, and his writings shaped Western philosophy and natural science for…
GreecedevelopmentphilosophyPlatoPhysics
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
Assisted Human Reproduction Act (2004)
By: Kathleen Hammond
| Published: Jul 30, 2015
The Assisted Human Reproduction Act (AHR Act) is a piece of federal legislation passed by the Parliament of Canada. The Act came into force on 29…
LawReproductive technologyFertilization in vitro, Human--Law and legislationMedicine--Research--Law and legislationBiomedical Ethics
Beadle and Ephrussi's Transplantation Technique for Drosophila
By: Divyash Chhetri
| Published: Jun 29, 2014
Boris Ephrussi and George Wells Beadle developed a transplantation technique on flies, Drosophila melanogaster, which they described in their 1936…
TechnologyTissue ExtractsGenesTransplantation of organs, tissues, etc.Tissue Transplantation
Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger (1829-1910)
By: Megan Kearl
| Published: Jun 22, 2012
Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger was a physiologist known for his research on respiration, the respiratory quotient, experimenting on the effects of…
PeopleRespiratory quotientRespirationEmbryologyEmbryos
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
The Meckel-Serres Conception of Recapitulation
By: Lindsey O'Connell
| Published: Jul 10, 2013
Johann Friedrich Meckel and Antoine Etienne Reynaud Augustin Serres developed in the early 1800s the basic principles of what later became called the…
fetal developmentFetal GrowthBirth DefectsFetus--AbnormalitiesEmbryology
Gunther von Hagens' Plastination Technique
By: Britta Martinez
| Published: Oct 24, 2012
Plastination is a technique for preserving tissues, organs, and whole bodies for medical purposes and public display. Gunther von Hagens invented a…
TechnologyPlastinationHuman bodyAnatomical museumsHuman Anatomy
"The Inductive Capacity of Oral Mesenchyme and Its Role in Tooth Development" (1969-1970), by Edward J. Kollar and Grace R. Baird
By: Kate MacCord
| Published: Mar 15, 2013
Between February 1969 and August 1970 Edward Kollar and Grace Baird, from the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, published three papers that…
teethEmbryosCell differentiationMesenchymeEpithelium