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Edwin Carlyle (Carl) Wood (1929–2011)
By: Whitney Alexandra Tuoti
| Published: Apr 01, 2021
Edwin Carlyle Wood, also known as Carl Wood, was a physician who helped develop in vitro fertilization, or IVF, treatments. From 1964 to 1992, Wood…
EmbryologyEmbryogenesisZygotesEmbryo TransferHuman embryo
Victor Ambros (1953-)
By: May Catherine, Justin M. Wolter
| Published: May 13, 2012
Victor Ambros is a professor of molecular medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and he discovered the first microRNA (miRNA) in…
PeopleRNAGenesEmbryosCaenorhabditis elegans
Howard Wilber Jones Jr.
By: Mark Zhang
| Published: Mar 03, 2013
Howard Wilber Jones Jr. and his wife, Georgeanna Seegar Jones, developed a method of in vitro fertilization and helped create the first baby in the…
FetusPregnancyEmbryologyEmbryosReproduction
The Process of Implantation of Embryos in Primates
By: Justin M. Wolter
| Published: Mar 21, 2013
Implantation is a process in which a developing embryo, moving as a blastocyst through a uterus, makes contact with the uterine wall and remains…
FetusPregnancyEmbryologyDevelopmental BiologyEmbryos
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
Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger (1829-1910)
By: Megan Kearl
| Published: Jun 22, 2012
Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger was a physiologist known for his research on respiration, the respiratory quotient, experimenting on the effects of…
PeopleRespiratory quotientRespirationEmbryologyEmbryos
Study of Fossilized Massospondylus Dinosaur Embryos from South Africa (1978-2012)
By: Madison Paige
| Published: Mar 31, 2015
In 1978, James Kitching discovered two dinosaur embryos in a road-cut talus at Roodraai (Red Bend) in Golden Gate Highlands National Park, South…
ContextDinosaursDinosaurs--EggsMassospondylus carinatusMassospondylus
Fortunio Liceti (1577–1657)
By: Anna Guerrero
| Published: Jun 25, 2018
Fortunio Liceti studied natural philosophy and medicine in Italy during the first half of the seventeenth century. Liceti wrote greater than seventy…
TeratologyAbnormalities, HumanAnimals--AbnormalitiesEmbryologyPathology
Gordon Watkins Douglas (1921-2000)
By: Alexis Abboud
| Published: Sep 15, 2014
Gordon Watkins Douglas researched cervical cancer, breach delivery, and treatment of high blood pressure during pregnancy in the US during the…
GynecologyDiagnosis, NoninvasiveEmbryologyAbortionAbortion services
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