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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
Sex-determining Region Y in Mammals
By: Troy Cox
| Published: Dec 31, 2013
The Sex-determining Region Y (Sry in mammals but SRY in humans) is a gene found on Y chromosomes that leads to the development of male phenotypes,…
Y ChromosomeTestisEmbryosChromosomesSex Chromosomes
Anencephaly
By: Jesse King
| Published: Feb 13, 2013
Anencephaly is an open neural tube defect, meaning that part of the neural tube does not properly close or that it has reopened during early…
fetal developmentFetus--AbnormalitiesBirth DefectsEmbryologyPregnancy
Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination in Reptiles
By: Karla T. Moeller
| Published: Feb 01, 2013
The sex of a reptile embryo partly results from the production of sex hormones during development, and one process to produce those hormones depends…
Sex DifferentiationReproductionAdaptationfetal developmentEmbryology
Karl Oskar Illmensee (1939–)
By: Cheryl Lancaster
| Published: Feb 26, 2017
Karl Oskar Illmensee studied the cloning and reproduction of fruit flies, mice, and humans in the US and Europe during the twentieth and twenty-first…
CloningMolecular CloningClone CellsTwinsEmbryos
Chemical Induction
By: Adam R. Navis
| Published: Oct 30, 2007
Research in chemical induction seeks to identify the compound or compounds responsible for differentiation in a developing embryo. Soren Lovtrup…
Cell differentiationEmbryosDevelopmental BiologyNotochordWaddington, C. H. (Conrad Hal), 1905-1975
Bicoid
By: Jack Resnik
| Published: Jun 02, 2012
Bicoid is the protein product of a maternal-effect gene unique to flies of the genus Drosophila . In 1988 Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard identified…
Nüsslein-Volhard, C. (Christiane)EmbryosMorphogenesisTuring, Alan, 1912-1954Morgan, Thomas Hunt, 1866-1945
David Starr Jordan (1851-1931)
By: Jill Briggs
| Published: Jun 26, 2013
David Starr Jordan studied fish and promoted eugenics in the US during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In his work, he embraced…
EugenicsEvolutionEmbryosEmbryologyHeredity
"A Genomic Regulatory Network for Development" (2002), by Eric H. Davidson, et al.
By: Justin M. Wolter
| Published: Oct 11, 2013
In 2002 Eric Davidson and his research team published 'A Genomic Regulatory Network for Development' in Science. The authors present the first…
LiteratureGene regulatory networksSystems BiologyGenetic regulationGenes
South Korea's Bioethics and Biosafety Act (2005)
By: Anne Safiya Clay
| Published: Mar 15, 2013
The South Korean government passed the Bioethics and Biosafety Act, known henceforth as the Bioethics Act, in 2003 and it took effect in 2005. South…
LawbioethicsInformed consent (Medical law)Embryonic Stem CellsEmbryonic stem cells--Research--Law and legislation