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The Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR) gene was identified in 1989 by geneticist Lap-Chee Tsui and his research team as the…
Cystic FibrosisReproductionCongenital DisordersHuman DevelopmentAmong other functions, the Notch signaling pathway contributes to the development of somites in animals. It involves a cell signaling mechanism with…
Notch genesNotch ProteinsReceptors, NotchNotch ReceptorsRosalind Elsie Franklin worked with X-ray crystallography at King's College London, UK, and she helped determine the helical structure of DNA in the…
PeopleDNAX-Ray CrystallographyMolecular geneticsMolecular BiologyIn 1987 Rebecca Louise Cann, Mark Stoneking, and Allan Charles Wilson published Mitochondrial DNA and Human Evolution in the journal Nature. The…
LiteratureMitochondriaHuman EvolutionEvolutionHomo sapiensIn 1928 Ezra Seymour Gosney founded the non-profit Human Betterment Foundation (HBF) in Pasadena, California to support the research and publication…
OrganizationCaliforniaInvoluntary SterilizationSterilization (Birth control)Human reproductionIn 1917 the Oregon State Legislature, in Salem, Oregon, passed a bill titled, 'To Prevent Procreation of Certain Classes in Oregon.' Passage of the…
OrganizationEugenicsOregonInvoluntary SterilizationSterilization (Birth control)In 1983, researchers Alan Trounson and Linda Mohr published the article “Human Pregnancy Following Cryopreservation, Thawing and Transfer of an Eight…
CryopreservationFertilization in VitroInfertilityFertility PreservationCryoprotective AgentBernard Rimland studied autism in children in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century. His early research in the 1950s and into…
AutismAutism spectrum disordersAutism in childrenIn 2007, Ishola Agbaje, Deirdre Rogers, Carmel McVicar, Neil McClure, Albert Atkinson, Con Mallidis, and Sheena Lewis published “Insulin Dependent…
LiteratureDiabetesType 1 DiabetesInfertilityInfertility, MaleIn 1914 Albert Niemann, a German pediatrician who primarily studied infant metabolism, published a description of an Ashkenazi Jewish infant with…
Niemann-Pick DiseasesHuman DevelopmentCongenital Disorders