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Ricardo Hector Asch (1947- )
By: Hilary Gilson
| Published: Jun 10, 2009
Ricardo Hector Asch was born 26 October 1947 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to a lawyer and French professor, Bertha, and a doctor and professor of…
PeopleFertilityethicsBiography
Germ-Free Animals
By: Maggie Zhou
| Published: May 24, 2024
Germ-free, or GF, animals are laboratory animals that completely lack microbes, making them useful tools for microbiome research. Researchers create…
Germ-Free LifeMicrobiome, HumanGut MicrobiomeBrain-Gut AxisGermfree animals
Robert Lanza (1956- )
By: Christopher Rojas
| Published: Feb 11, 2015
During the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Robert Paul Lanza studied embryonic stem cells, tissues, and endangered species as chief scientific…
Advanced Cell Technology (Firm)BantengCloningEmbryosEmbryonic Stem Cells
Paul Eugen Bleuler (1857–1939)
By: Jessica Resnick
| Published: Apr 06, 2017
Paul Eugen Bleuler studied autism and schizophrenia, among other psychiatric disorders, throughout continental Europe in the early twentieth century…
Dementia PraecoxSchizophrenic DisordersSchizophreniaAutismAutism spectrum disorders
Paul Kammerer's Experiments on the Midwife Toad (1905-1910)
By: Federica Turriziani Colonna
| Published: Dec 30, 2014
In the first decade of the twentieth century, Paul Kammerer, a zoologist working at the Vivarium in Vienna, Austria, conducted research on…
Kammerer, Paul, 1880-1926Midwife toadsKammerer, Paul, 1880-1926. Streitfrage der Vererbung erworbener Eigenschaften. EnglishInheritance of acquired charactersAdaptation
“A New Vision for Advancing Our Movement for Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights, and Reproductive Justice” (2005), by Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice (ACRJ)
By: Richa Venkatraman
| Published: Nov 17, 2020
In 2005, the organization Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice, or ACRJ, published “A New Vision for Advancing Our Movement for Reproductive…
LiteratureReproductive RightsReproductive Health ServicesReproductive HealthCommunication in reproductive health
Roy John Britten (1919-2012)
By: Abhinav Mishra
| Published: Oct 24, 2014
Roy John Britten studied DNA sequences in the US in the second half of the twentieth century, and he helped discover repetitive elements in DNA…
DNAGenomesCalifornia Institute of TechnologyGenetic regulationMice
The Cell in Development and Inheritance (1900), by Edmund Beecher Wilson
By: Jane Maienschein, Abhinav Mishra
| Published: Jun 18, 2015
The Cell in Development and Inheritance, by Edmund Beecher Wilson, provided a textbook introduction to cell biology for generations of biologists in…
LiteratureCell organellesMitosisMeiosisCell Proliferation
Dizhou Tong (1902-1979)
By: Yawen Zou
| Published: Feb 18, 2014
Dizhou Tong, also called Ti Chou Tung, studied marine animals and helped introduce and organize experimental embryology in China during the twentieth…
Marine BiologyCell nuclei--TransplantationEmbryology, ExperimentalDevelopmental BiologyEmbryos
George Richard Tiller (1941-2009)
By: Mark Zhang
| Published: Jul 16, 2012
George Richard Tiller, a doctor who performed abortions in Wichita, Kansas, was shot to death on 31 May 2009 by Scott Roeder. As the director of one…
AbortionLate-term abortionAbortion servicesFetusAbortion, Legal