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Apoptosis in Embryonic Development
By: Zane Bartlett
| Published: Jun 08, 2017
Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is a mechanism in embryonic development that occurs naturally in organisms. Apoptosis is a different process…
ApoptosisGenetic regulationCaenorhabditis elegansCellsGerm Cells
Alexis Carrel's Immortal Chick Heart Tissue Cultures (1912-1946)
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: Jul 03, 2012
In an effort to develop tissue culture techniques for long-term tissue cultivation, French surgeon and biologist Alexis Carrel, and his associates,…
Carrel, Alexis, 1873-1944Tissue cultureCellsGerm CellsEmbryos
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
"The Role of Maternal Mitochondria during Oogenesis, Fertilization and Embryogenesis" (2002), by James M. Cummins
By: Dorothy R. Haskett
| Published: Sep 19, 2014
James M Cummins published 'The Role of Maternal Mitochondria during Oogenesis, Fertilization and Embryogenesis' 30 January 2002 in Reproductive…
LiteratureMitochondriaEmbryologyFertilization (Biology)Ovum
Leonard Hayflick (1928- )
By: Zane Bartlett
| Published: Jul 20, 2014
Leonard Hayflick studied the processes by which cells age during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the United States. In 1961 at the Wistar…
PeopleCellsCell populationsCell DeathApoptosis