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"Generation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Using Recombinant Proteins" (2009), by Hongyan Zhou et al.
By: Samuel Philbrick
| Published: Aug 30, 2010
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are studied carefully by scientists not just because they are a potential source of stem cells that…
LiteratureStem CellsPublicationsRegeneration
Dickey-Wicker Amendment, 1996
By: Megan Kearl
| Published: Aug 27, 2010
The Dickey-Wicker Amendment is an amendment attached to the appropriations bills for the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and…
LawbioethicsHuman Development
William Keith Brooks (1848-1908)
By: Kaitlin Smith
| Published: Jul 01, 2010
Biologist William Keith Brooks studied embryological development in invertebrates and used his results as evidence for theories of evolution and…
BiographyEducation
Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells (UCBSC)
By: Angel Lopez
| Published: Jul 01, 2010
Umbilical cord blood (UCB) stem cells are hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) that are recovered from the blood of the umbilical cord and placenta after…
Cord Blood Stem Cell TransplantationReproductionStem Cellsmedicine
Johns Hopkins Fertility Center
By: Aroob Khokhar
| Published: Jul 01, 2010
Johns Hopkins Medical Center, located in Baltimore, Maryland, opened in 1889; its associated medical school opened four years later. Today the…
OrganizationFertilityOrganizationsReproductionmedicine
The Birth Control Pill
By: Christina Raup
| Published: Jul 01, 2010
The birth control pill, more commonly known as "the pill" is a form of contraception taken daily in pill form and consisting of synthetic hormones…
ContraceptionReproductionReproductive Rights
Pope Pius IX (1792-1878)
By: Angel Lopez
| Published: Jul 01, 2010
Pope Pius IX, born Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, marked his contribution to the abortion debate by removing the distinction between an "animated"…
PeoplereligionReproductionBiographyCatholicism
Birth Control or the Limitation of Offspring (1936), by William J. Robinson
By: Angel Lopez
| Published: Jul 01, 2010
Birth Control or the Limitation of Offspring was written by American eugenics and birth control advocate William J. Robinson. First published in 1916…
LiteratureContraceptionPublicationsReproduction
Elizabeth Maplesden Ramsey (1906-1993)
By: Kaitlin Smith
| Published: Jul 01, 2010
Physician and pathologist Elizabeth Maplesden Ramsey was a member of the Carnegie Institution of Washington (CIW) for thirty-nine years. The…
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