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Friedrich Tiedemann (1781-1861)
By: Jonathon LaTourelle
| Published: Jul 07, 2015
Friedrich Tiedemann studied the anatomy of humans and animals in the nineteenth century in Germany. He published on zoological subjects, on the heart…
BrainAnatomy, ComparativeEmbryologyFetal braindevelopment
Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002)
By: M. Elizabeth Barnes
| Published: Feb 18, 2014
Stephen Jay Gould studied snail fossils and worked at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts during the latter half of the twentieth century…
Punctuated equilibrium (Evolution)Spandrel beamsOntogenyPhylogenyFossils
The Cabinet of Frederik Ruysch
By: Britta Martinez
| Published: Apr 12, 2013
Frederik Ruysch's cabinet of curiosities, commonly referred to simply as the Cabinet, was a museum Ruysch created in the Netherlands in the late…
OrganizationHuman AnatomyAnatomical museumsHuman anatomy--HistoryTissues--Preservation
Endothelium
By: Kate MacCord
| Published: Jan 28, 2014
The endothelium is the layer of cells lining the blood vessels in animals. It weighs more than one kilogram in adult humans, and it covers a surface…
EndotheliumTissuesEpitheliumCellsVascular endothelium
Elizabeth Dexter Hay (1927–2007)
By: Kevin Gleason
| Published: Jul 26, 2017
Elizabeth Dexter Hay studied the cellular processes that affect development of embryos in the US during the mid-twentieth and early twenty-first…
Electron microscopesExtracellular matrixCorneaCollagenRadioactive substances
Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856-1939)
By: Jane Maienschein
| Published: Aug 05, 2013
Edmund Beecher Wilson contributed to cell biology, the study of cells, in the US during the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth…
EmbryologyCellsCytologyHeredityEvolution
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
"On the Induction of Embryonic Primordia by Implantation of Organizers from Different Species" (1924), Hilde Mangold's Dissertation
By: Megan Kearl, Kate MacCord
| Published: Dec 19, 2012
Hilde Proscholdt Mangold was a doctoral student at the Zoological Institute at the University of Freiburg in Freiburg, Germany, from 1920-1923.…
LiteratureEmbryosTrembley, Abraham, 1710-1784GastrulationEmbryology
“Transfer of a Human Zygote” (1973), by David De Kretzer, Peter Dennis, Bryan Hudson, John Leeton, Alexander Lopata, Ken Outch, James Talbot, and Carl Wood
By: Whitney Alexandra Tuoti
| Published: Mar 25, 2021
On 29 September 1973, researchers David De Kretzer, Peter Dennis, Bryan Hudson, John Leeton, Alexander Lopata, Ken Outch, James Talbot, and Carl Wood…
LiteratureEmbryologyEmbryogenesisZygotesEmbryo Transfer