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Charles Robert Cantor (1942- )
By: Alexis Abboud
| Published: Jun 11, 2015
Charles Robert Cantor helped sequence the human genome, and he developed methods to non-invasively determine the genes in human fetuses. Cantor…
Human Genome ProjectDNAfetal developmentFetusEmbryos
Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS)
By: Erica O'Neil
| Published: Jan 10, 2014
Congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) can occur in children whose mothers contracted the rubella virus, sometimes called German measles, during pregnancy…
RubellaRubella in pregnancyRubella virusPregnancyEmbryos
"Congenital Cataract following German Measles in the Mother" (1941), by Norman McAlister Gregg
By: Lindsey O'Connell
| Published: Dec 31, 2013
In Australia in the 1940s, Norman McAlister Gregg observed a connection between pregnant women who contracted the rubella virus, or German measles,…
LiteratureCataract in childrenRubellaRubella in pregnancyRubella virus
Cocaine as a Teratogen
By: Mark Zhang, Chanapa Tantibanchachai
| Published: Oct 17, 2013
Cocaine use by pregnant women has a variety of effects on the embryo and fetus, ranging from various gastro-intestinal and cardiac defects to tissue…
CocaineCocaine abusePregnancyEmbryosFetus
Johann Friedrich Meckel, the Younger (1781-1833)
By: Lindsey O'Connell
| Published: Oct 11, 2013
Johann Friedrich Meckel studied abnormal animal and human anatomy in nineteenth century Germany in an attempt to explain embryological development.…
PeopleAnatomy, ComparativeEmbryologyBirth Defectsfetal development
A Child Is Born (1965), by Lennart Nilsson
By: Mark Zhang
| Published: Sep 17, 2013
Dell Publishing in New York City, New York, published Lennart Nilsson's A Child Is Born in 1966. The book was a translation of the Swedish version…
LiteraturedevelopmentPregnancyfetal developmentFetal Growth
The Silent Scream (1984), by Bernard Nathanson, Crusade for Life, and American Portrait Films
By: Mark Zhang
| Published: May 02, 2013
The Silent Scream is an anti-abortion film released in 1984 by American Portrait Films, then based in Brunswick, Ohio. The film was created and…
LiteratureAbortionAbortion in literatureFetusEmbryos
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