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Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination in Reptiles
By: Karla T. Moeller
| Published: Feb 01, 2013
The sex of a reptile embryo partly results from the production of sex hormones during development, and one process to produce those hormones depends…
Sex DifferentiationReproductionAdaptationfetal developmentEmbryology
Julia Bell (1879-1979)
By: Jesse King
| Published: Dec 27, 2012
Julia Bell worked in twentieth-century Britain, discovered Fragile X Syndrome, and helped find heritable elements of other developmental and genetic…
Genetic Disordersfetal developmentRubella in pregnancyRubella virusHeredity
Corticosteroids' Effect on Fetal Lung Maturation (1972), by Sir Graham Collingwood Liggins and Ross Howie
By: Kathleen O'Connor, Erica O'Neil
| Published: Dec 19, 2012
In a clinical trial from 1969 to 1972, Sir Graham Collingwood Liggins and Ross Howie showed that if doctors treat pregnant women with corticosteroids…
Liggins, G. C.Adrenocortical hormonesPregnancyRespiratory Distress SyndromePremature Infants
Body Worlds
By: Britta Martinez
| Published: Nov 27, 2012
Body Worlds is an exhibition featuring plastinates, human bodies that have been preserved using a plastination process. First displayed in 1995 in…
OrganizationPlastinationHuman bodyAnatomical museumsHuman Anatomy
Gunther von Hagens' Plastination Technique
By: Britta Martinez
| Published: Oct 24, 2012
Plastination is a technique for preserving tissues, organs, and whole bodies for medical purposes and public display. Gunther von Hagens invented a…
TechnologyPlastinationHuman bodyAnatomical museumsHuman Anatomy
Fetus in Fetu
By: Corinne DeRuiter
| Published: May 30, 2012
Fetus in fetu is a rare variety of parasitic twins , where the developmentally abnormal parasitic twin is completely encapsulated within the torso of…
FetusEmbryosfetal developmentPregnancyFetus--Abnormalities
In the Womb: Identical Twins (2009), by National Geographic
By: Maggie Pingolt
| Published: Mar 08, 2012
National Geographic's documentary In the Womb: Identical Twins focuses on the prenatal development of human identical twins. Director Lorne Townend…
LiteratureTwinsDocumentary filmsTestosteroneMethylation