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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (1991- )
By: Sarah Taddeo
| Published: Oct 30, 2014
In 1991, the United Kingdom established the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) as a response to technologies that used human embryos…
OrganizationEmbryologyReproductive HealthHuman reproductive technologyWarnock, Mary, 1808-1900
General Embryological Information Service, published annually by the Hubrecht Laboratory, 1949-1981
By: Nathan Crowe
| Published: Jan 03, 2013
The General Embryological Information Service (GEIS) was an annual report published by the Hubrecht Laboratory in Utrecht, The Netherlands from 1949…
LiteratureNieuwkoop, Pieter D. (Pieter Dirk)Science--History--PeriodicalsScience--Periodicals--PublishingDrosophila melanogaster
The Marine Biological Laboratory Embryology Course
By: Jane Maienschein
| Published: Oct 24, 2007
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, began in 1888 to offer opportunities for instruction and research in biological…
OrganizationsMarine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.)EmbryologyMarine laboratoriesWhitman, Charles Otis, 1842-1910
Karl Ernst von Baer's Laws of Embryology
By: M. Elizabeth Barnes
| Published: Apr 15, 2014
In 1828, while working at the University of Konigsberg in Konigsberg, Germany Karl Ernst von Baer proposed four laws of animal development, which…
Baer, Karl Ernst von, 1792-1876EmbryologyAnatomy, Comparative
The Origin of Species: "Chapter Thirteen: Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology: Embryology: Rudimentary Organs" (1859), by Charles R. Darwin
By: M. Elizabeth Barnes
| Published: Jul 11, 2014
Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology: Embryology: Rudimentary Organs is the thirteenth chapter of Charles Darwin's book The Origin of…
LiteratureEvolutionEvolution (Biology)Natural selectionEmbryology
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy
By: Federica Turriziani Colonna
| Published: Dec 22, 2014
The Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (Anton Dohrn Zoological Station) is a public research institute focusing on biology and biodiversity. Hereafter…
OrganizationStazione zoologica di NapoliDevelopmental BiologyZoologyEmbryology
Franz Julius Keibel (1861-1929)
By: M. Elizabeth Barnes
| Published: Jun 21, 2014
Franz Keibel studied the embryos of humans and other animals in Europe at the turn of the twentieth century. He lived and worked in several different…
Embryology
Ernst Haeckel's Biogenetic Law (1866)
By: M. Elizabeth Barnes
| Published: May 03, 2014
The biogenetic law is a theory of development and evolution proposed by Ernst Haeckel in Germany in the 1860s. It is one of several recapitulation…
EvolutionDevelopmental BiologyEmbryologyAnatomy, Comparative
Julia Barlow Platt's Embryological Observations on Salamanders' Cartilage (1893)
By: Karina Ramirez
| Published: Mar 06, 2017
In 1893, Julia Barlow Platt published her research on the origins of cartilage in the developing head of the common mudpuppy (Necturus maculosus)…
CartilageEmbryosGastrulationEmbryologyNecturus
Possums (1952), by Carl G. Hartman
By: Gia Goodman, Karen Wellner
| Published: Dec 02, 2013
Possums is a 174-page book consisting of a series of essays written about the Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana), the only living marsupial in…
LiteratureVirginia opossumEmbryologyMarsupialsNatural history