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George W. Bush Executive Order 13455, June 2007
By: Aroob Khokhar
| Published: Jul 01, 2010
On 20 January 2001, Republican George W. Bush was sworn in as the forty-third president of the United States, replacing Democrat William J. Clinton.…
LawBush, George W. (George Walker), 1946-Stem CellsFetus
The Jackson Laboratory
By: Christina Raup
| Published: Jul 01, 2010
The Roscoe B. Jackson Laboratory, known commonly in the scientific field as the Jackson Laboratory, was founded by Clarence Cook Little in May 1929.…
OrganizationOrganizationsLaboratoriesMiceGenetics
Images of Embryos in Life Magazine in the 1950s
By: Olivia Conley
| Published: Jun 30, 2010
Embryonic images displayed in Life magazine during the mid-twentieth century serve as a representation of technological advances and the growing…
PublicationsReproductionChicksHuman DevelopmentFetus
Birth without Violence (1975), by Frederick Leboyer
By: Olivia Conley
| Published: Jun 30, 2010
In Birth without Violence (1975), French obstetrician Frederick Leboyer describes in poetic form the possible perceptions and feelings of embryos and…
LiteratureHuman DevelopmentPublicationsReproductionFetus
"Drama of Life Before Birth" (1965), by Life Magazine and Lennart Nilsson
By: Olivia Conley
| Published: Jun 30, 2010
Life Magazine's 1965 cover story "Drama of Life Before Birth" featured photographs of embryos and fetuses taken by Swedish photojournalist Lennart…
LiteratureFetusPublicationsReproductionHuman Development
Francis Maitland Balfour (1851-1882)
By: Mark A. Ulett
| Published: Jun 29, 2010
During the 1870s and early 1880s, the British morphologist Francis Maitland Balfour contributed in important ways to the budding field of…
BiographyEvolution
Edward Stuart Russell (1887-1954)
By: Mark A. Ulett
| Published: Jun 29, 2010
Edward Stuart Russell was born 23 March 1887 to Helen Cockburn Young and the Reverend John N. Russell in Port Glasgow, Scotland. Friends and co-…
PeopleBiographyMorphologyhistoryphilosophy
"Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Somatic Cells" (2007), by Junying Yu et al.
By: Ke Wu
| Published: Jun 29, 2010
On 2 December 2007, Science published a report on creating human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells from human somatic cells: "Induced Pluripotent…
LiteratureStem CellsPublicationsSomatic cells
Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860-1948)
By: Mark A. Ulett
| Published: Jun 29, 2010
Known by many for his wide-reaching interests and keen thinking, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson was one of Britain's leading scientific academics in the…
PeopleBiographyMorphology
Benjamin Harrison Willier (1890-1972)
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 28, 2010
Benjamin Harrison Willier is considered one of the most versatile embryologists to have ever practiced in the US. His research spanned most of the…
TransplantationBiography