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Ectoderm
By: Kate MacCord
| Published: Dec 02, 2013
Ectoderm is one of three germ layers--groups of cells that coalesce early during the embryonic life of all animals except maybe sponges, and from…
EmbryosEmbryologyGastrulationCellsTissues
Mesoderm
By: Kate MacCord
| Published: Nov 26, 2013
Mesoderm is one of the three germ layers, groups of cells that interact early during the embryonic life of animals and from which organs and tissues…
MesodermGastrulationCell differentiationCellsTissues
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
By: Samantha Hauserman
| Published: Nov 26, 2013
In nineteenth century Great Britain, Thomas Henry Huxley proposed connections between the development of organisms and their evolutionary histories,…
PeopleDarwin, Charles, 1809-1882EvolutionpaleontologyEmbryology
Ferguson v. City of Charleston (2001)
By: Chanapa Tantibanchachai
| Published: Nov 26, 2013
The US Supreme Court case Ferguson v. City of Charleston (2001) established that public hospitals couldn't legally drug test pregnant women without…
LawReproductive RightsPregnancyEmbryosDrug testing
Endoderm
By: Kate MacCord
| Published: Nov 17, 2013
Endoderm is one of the germ layers-- aggregates of cells that organize early during embryonic life and from which all organs and tissues develop.…
GastrulationEmbryosEmbryologyCellsTissues
J. B. v. M. B. (2001)
By: Jennifer E. Chapman
| Published: Nov 17, 2013
In 2001, the Supreme Court of New Jersey decided a dispute between a divorced couple over cryopreserved preembryos created through in vitro…
LawFrozen human embryosFertilization in VitroPregnancyEmbryos
Kass v. Kass (1998)
By: Mark Zhang, Jennifer E. Chapman
| Published: Nov 01, 2013
In Maureen Kass v. Steven Kass (1998), the Court of Appeals of New York in Albany, New York, ruled that the state should generally consider IVF…
LawFrozen human embryosFertilization in VitroInformed consent (Medical law)Surrogate mothers
A. Z. v. B. Z. (2000)
By: Jennifer E. Chapman
| Published: Nov 01, 2013
In A.Z. v. B.Z. (2000), the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in Boston, Massachusetts, affirmed a lower courtÕs decision, ruling that…
LawFrozen human embryosFertilization in VitroPregnancyEmbryos
Davis v. Davis (1992)
By: Mark Zhang, Jennifer E. Chapman
| Published: Oct 17, 2013
In Davis v. Davis (1992), the Supreme Court of Tennessee decided a dispute over cryopreserved preembryos in favor of Junior Lewis Davis, who sought…
LawFrozen human embryosFertilization in VitroAmerican Fertility SocietyConception
Cocaine as a Teratogen
By: Mark Zhang, Chanapa Tantibanchachai
| Published: Oct 17, 2013
Cocaine use by pregnant women has a variety of effects on the embryo and fetus, ranging from various gastro-intestinal and cardiac defects to tissue…
CocaineCocaine abusePregnancyEmbryosFetus