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Serial Cultivation of Human Diploid Cells in the Lab (1958–1961) by Leonard Hayflick and Paul S. Moorhead
By: Christian H. Ross
| Published: Apr 27, 2017
From 1958 to 1961, Leonard Hayflick and Paul Moorhead in the US developed a way in the laboratory to cultivate strains of human cells with complete…
MMR VaccineRubellaRubella--VaccinationFetal tissuesOncogenic Viruses
Kurt Benirschke (1924-)
By: Karen Love
| Published: Apr 26, 2016
Kurt Benirschke studied cells, placentas, and endangered species in Germany and the US during the twentieth century. Benirschke was professor at the…
Developmental BiologyGeneticsEndangered SpeciesGene librariesEmbryology
The Debate over DNA Replication Before the Meselson-Stahl Experiment (1953–1957)
By: Victoria Hernandez
| Published: Jan 03, 2018
Between 1953 and 1957, before the Meselson-Stahl experiment verified semi-conservative replication of DNA, scientists debated how DNA replicated. In…
ChromosomesCalifornia Institute of TechnologyCold Spring Harbor LaboratoryDNA Replication
Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920-1958)
By: Lindsey O'Connell
| Published: Nov 17, 2013
Rosalind Elsie Franklin worked with X-ray crystallography at King's College London, UK, and she helped determine the helical structure of DNA in the…
PeopleDNAX-Ray CrystallographyMolecular geneticsMolecular Biology
Shoukhrat Mitalipov and Masahito Tachibana’s Mitochondrial Gene Replacement in Primate Offspring and Embryonic Stem Cells (2009)
By: Giselle Lee
| Published: Jan 10, 2018
Shoukhrat Mitalipov, Masahito Tachibana, and their team of researchers replaced the mitochondrial genes of primate embryonic stem cells via spindle…
monkeysrhesus macaqueSendai virusEmbryonic Stem CellsMitochondrial Diseases
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
The Hayflick Limit
By: Zane Bartlett
| Published: Nov 14, 2014
The Hayflick Limit is a concept that helps to explain the mechanisms behind cellular aging. The concept states that a normal human cell can only…
CellsCell populationsCell DeathApoptosisCell Proliferation
Carol Widney Greider (1961-)
By: Zane Bartlett
| Published: Jan 26, 2015
Carol Widney Greider studied telomeres and telomerase in the US at the turn of the twenty-first century. She worked primarily at the University of…
Greider, Carol W.Women Nobel Prize winnersNobel Prize winnersTelomeraseTelomere
Francis Harry Compton Crick (1916-2004)
By: Amanda Andrei
| Published: Nov 01, 2013
Francis Harry Compton Crick, who co-discovered the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in 1953 in Cambridge, England, also developed The Central…
DNAChromosomesNucleotide sequenceNucleic AcidsMolecular Biology