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Embryos in Wax: Models from the Ziegler Studio is a history of embryo wax modeling written by science historian Nick Hopwood. Published by the…
LiteraturePublicationsModelsEducationhistoryIn the July 2007 issue of Nature, Keisuke Okita, Tomoko Ichisaka, and Shinya Yamanaka added to the new work on induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs…
LiteratureStem CellsPublicationsSomatic cellsMary Ware Dennett, an activist in the US for birth control and sex education in the early twentieth century, wrote an educational pamphlet in 1915…
TechnologyGenerative organsSexually Transmitted DiseasesLaborMenstruationThe book Infant Mortality: Results of a Field Study in Johnstown, PA., Based on Births in One Calendar Year (1915), written by Emma Duke, detailed…
Infants--MortalitySocial WelfareMilkpublic healthRural HealthHans Peter Dietz and Judy Simpson published, “Levator Trauma is Associated with Pelvic Organ Prolapse,” in the journal BJOG: An International Journal…
LiteratureReproductive Health ServicesReproductive HealthReproductive System, FemaleGenital OrgansIn “Testing the Kin Selection Theory: Who Controls the Investments?” Bert Hölldobler and Edward Osborne Wilson discussed the predictive power of kin…
LiteratureAntsAnimal behaviorReproductionNatural selectionFrom 1886 to 1889 Charles Otis Whitman was director of the Allis Lake Laboratory in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The lab was established by Edward Phelps…
Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.)PublicationsLaboratoriesIn “Beyond Menstrual Hygiene: Addressing Vaginal Bleeding Throughout the Life Course in LMICs,” hereafter “Beyond Menstrual Hygiene,” Marni Sommer,…
LiteratureMenstruation disordersFeminine Hygiene ProductsMenstrual cycle--Psychological aspectsStigmatizationThe embryological treatise De formato foetu (The Formed Fetus) was written by anatomist and embryologist Girolamo Fabrici. There is no conclusive…
LiteratureFabricius, ab Aquapendente, approximately 1533-1619FetusPublicationsAnatomyIn March 2006, scientists from Ghana and the UK Karen Edmond, Charles Zandoh, Maria Quigley, Seeba Amenga-Etego, Seth Oqusi-Agyei, and Betty Kirkwood…
LiteratureBreastfeedingBreastfeeding promotionBreast FeedingBreastfeeding--Immunological aspects