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“The Infectious Origins of Stillbirth” (2003) by Robert L. Goldenberg and Cortney Thompson
By: Ajeet Bains
| Published: Mar 23, 2022
In September 2003, Robert L. Goldenberg and Cortney Thompson published the article “The Infectious Origins of Stillbirth” in the American Journal of…
LiteratureFetal deathInfectionQ FeverMalaria in pregnancy
George Otto Gey (1899-1970)
By: Madeleine Zheng
| Published: Mar 21, 2022
George Otto Gey was a scientist in the US who studied cells and cultivated the first continuous human cell line in 1951. Gey derived the cells for…
HeLa CellsCell MovementKB CellsCell CommunicationCulture Media, Conditioned
Sexual Hygiene (1902), by the Alkaloidal Clinic
By: Rainey Horwitz
| Published: Mar 21, 2022
In 1902, editors of the medical journal Alkaloidal Clinic Wallace C. Abbott and William Francis Waugh published Sexual Hygiene, a book about normal…
LiteratureSexual HealthSex EducationHygienePublications
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells - Image
By: Madeleine Howell-Moroney
| Published: Jan 25, 2022
TechnologyStem CellsEmbryonic Stem CellsFibroblast-Derived Induced Pluripotent Stem CellsHuman Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell
Mesenchyme - Image
By: Katherine Koczwara
| Published: Jan 21, 2022
Connective Tissue CellsEpithelial-mesenchymal TransitionMesenchymal Stem CellsMesodermOrganisms
Jérôme Lejeune (1926−1994)
By: Maeen Arslan, Grace Fitzgerald
| Published: Aug 19, 2021
Jérôme Lejeune was a French physician and researcher who studied genetics and developmental disorders. According to the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation, in…
Down syndromeMongolismKaryotypeGenetic ScreeningGenetic Concepts
Test-Tube Baby - Image
By: Sarah Walls
| Published: Aug 13, 2021
“Test-tube baby” is a term used to refer to a baby produced through artificial insemination or in vitro fertilization, also called IVF.
Fertilization in vitro, HumanHuman reproductive technologyIn Vitro TechniquesZygoteIn Vitro Oocyte Maturation Techniques
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
Walter Schiller (1887–1960)
By: Alexis Darby
| Published: Aug 12, 2021
Walter Schiller studied the causes of diseases in the US and Austria in the early twentieth century and in 1928, invented the Schiller test, or a way…
Cervix uteri--CancerCervical CancerIodineGlycogenCervix uteri
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