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On the Origin of Mitosing Cells by Lynn Sagan appeared in the March 1967 edition of the Journal of Theoretical Biology. At the time the article was…
LiteratureMitosisEndosymbiosisflagellasymbiosisIn February 1953, Linus Pauling and Robert Brainard Corey, two scientists working at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California,…
LiteratureDNAGeneticsX-ray crystallography--TechniqueCrystallography, X-RayHuman pluripotent stem cells are valued for their potential to form numerous specialized cells and for their longevity. In the US, where a portion of…
LiteratureKass, LeonStem CellsPublicationsethicsIn 1910, Thomas Hunt Morgan performed an experiment at Columbia University, in New York City, New York, that helped identify the role chromosomes…
DrosophilaHeredityInheritance of acquired charactersColumbia University--Graduate studentsMutationIn 1913, journalist Samuel Hopkins Adams published “What Can We Do About Cancer? The Most Vital and Insistent Question in the Medical World,”…
LiteratureCervix uteri--CancerBreast--Cancer--Patients--CareBreast--Cancer--Patients--Counseling ofBreast--Cancer--SurgeryIn 2011, Sarah McMahon and colleagues published “The Impact of Emotional and Physical Violence During Pregnancy on Maternal and Child Health at One…
LiteratureIntimate Partner ViolencePsychological AbusePsychological child abuseWife abuseIn 1986, Vern L. Katz, Deborah J. Dotters, and William Droegemueller published “Perimortem Cesarean Delivery,” an article in which they developed the…
LiteratureCesarean SectionCardiac ArrestPregnancyPregnancy--ComplicationsOn 2 December 2007, Science published a report on creating human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells from human somatic cells: "Induced Pluripotent…
LiteratureStem CellsPublicationsSomatic cellsIn 2015, the Public Broadcasting Service, or PBS, released a three-part documentary series, Twice Born–Stories from the Special Delivery Unit,…
LiteratureFetus--SurgerySpina BifidaTeratomaObstetrics--SurgeryThe Origin and Behavior of Mutable Loci in Maize, by Barbara McClintock, was published in 1950 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
LiteratureMcClintock, Barbara, 1902-1992ChromosomesTransposonsCorn