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Thesis: How Purported Scientific Failures Have Led to Advancements in IVF
By: Whitney Alexandra Tuoti
| Published: Mar 17, 2021
This thesis shows us the history of how some of the first attempts at IVF in humans using various options such as donated egg cells and cryopreserved…
Fertilization in VitroIn vitro fertilizationScience in literatureMedical Laboratory SciencePublications
Thesis: Timeline of Changes in Mammography Guidelines in the United States
By: Dina Ziganshina
| Published: Feb 16, 2021
Breast cancer affects about 12% of women in the US. Arguably, it is one of the most advertised cancers. Mammography became a popular tool of breast…
Breast--Cancer--Diagnosis--EvaluationBreast CancerCancer of the BreastMammary CancerTumors, Breast
Thesis: From Fertilization to Birth: Representing Development in High School Biology Textbooks
By: Karen Linette Wellner
| Published: Feb 14, 2021
Biology textbooks are everybody's business. In accepting the view that texts are created with specific social goals in mind, I examined 127 twentieth…
TextbooksBook IllustrationsPictorial WorkPublications
Thesis: Reproduction in Science Fiction
By: Grace Dayoung Kim
| Published: Feb 10, 2021
Science fiction works can reflect the relationship between science and society by telling stories that are set in the future of ethical implications…
Science FictionLiteratureScience in literaturePublicationsReproduction
Thesis: A History of Cellular Senescence and Its Relation to Stem Cells in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
By: Zane Bartlett
| Published: Dec 16, 2020
This study aims to provide information to answer the following question: While some scientists claim they can indefinitely culture a stem cell line…
AgingsenescenceCell Culture TechniquesCell culturePublications
Dissertation: Lessons from Embryos: Haeckel’s Embryo Drawings, Evolution, and Secondary Biology Textbooks
By: Karen Linette Wellner
| Published: Nov 06, 2020
Haeckel believed that the development of an embryo revealed the adult stages of the organism’s ancestors. Haeckel represented this idea with drawings…
TextbooksEmbryosEmbryonic DevelopmentEmbryo DevelopmentPublications
Essay: Review of Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos
By: Lijing Jiang, Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 22, 2012
To Lynn M. Morgan, the Mary E. Woolley Professor of Anthropology at Mt. Holyoke College, nothing says life more than a dead embryo. In her easily…
EssayHuman embryoFetusPublications