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Revive & Restore (2012– )
By: Risa Aria Schnebly
| Published: Dec 16, 2020
Revive and Restore is a California-based nonprofit that uses genetic engineering to help solve conservation problems, such as saving endangered…
OrganizationExtinction (Biology)MammothsMammuthusWoolly mammoth
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (1890- )
By: Rachel Gur-Arie
| Published: Jun 21, 2014
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is a non-profit research institution that specializes in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, quantitative…
OrganizationWatson, James D., 1928-EugenicsBacteriophagesBrenner, Sydney
Merck & Company's Development of Gardasil
By: Maeen Arslan
| Published: Jun 28, 2022
In 2006, the United States branch of Merck & Co. received FDA approval for Gardasil, a human papillomavirus, or HPV, vaccine that protects…
OrganizationCervix uteri--CancerPapillomavirusesVaccine mandatesMeasles vaccine
Carnegie Institution of Washington Department of Embryology
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 27, 2010
The Carnegie Institution of Washington's (CIW) Embryology Department was opened in 1914 and remains one of six departments in the CIW. The…
OrganizationOrganizationsEducationCarnegie Institution of Washington
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy
By: Federica Turriziani Colonna
| Published: Dec 22, 2014
The Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (Anton Dohrn Zoological Station) is a public research institute focusing on biology and biodiversity. Hereafter…
OrganizationStazione zoologica di NapoliDevelopmental BiologyZoologyEmbryology
The National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC)
By: Cassidy Possehl
| Published: May 31, 2017
Audrey Heimler and colleagues founded the National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC) in 1979 in New Hyde Park in New York, New York. Her stated…
OrganizationGenetic counselorsGenetic CounselingFragile X SyndromeOrganizations
The Galton Society for the Study of the Origin and Evolution of Man (1918–1935)
By: Aliya R. Hoff
| Published: Jun 03, 2021
Charles Benedict Davenport, Madison Grant, and Henry Fairfield Osborn founded the Galton Society for the Study of the Origin and Evolution of Man, or…
OrganizationEugenicsDavenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944Laughlin, Harry Hamilton, 1880-1943segregation
Amanda Sims Memorial Fund (1930–1935)
By: Alexis Darby
| Published: Sep 08, 2020
In 1930, physician Joseph Colt Bloodgood founded the Amanda Sims Memorial Fund, or the ASMF, a United States cancer awareness organization that…
OrganizationCervix uteri--CancerCervical CancerWomen's health servicesWomen's health services--United States