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The Cell-Theory was written by Thomas Henry Huxley in Britain and published in 1853 by The British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review. The twenty-…
LiteratureEpigeneticsEmbryologyHuxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895Cellular control mechanismsHomology is a central concept of comparative and evolutionary biology, referring to the presence of the same bodily parts (e.g., morphological…
Homology (Biology)MorphologyBarbara McClintock conducted experiments on corn (Zea mays) in the United States in the mid-twentieth century to study the structure and function of…
TransposonsCornCytogeneticsChromosomesGeneticsIn 1962 researcher John Bertrand Gurdon at the University of Oxford in Oxford, England, conducted a series of experiments on the developmental…
Cell nuclei--TransplantationGenetic EngineeringNuclear TransplantationUniversity College (University of Oxford)Xenopus laevisCurt Jacob Stern studied radiation and chromosomes in humans and fruit flies in the United States during the twentieth century. He researched the…
ChromosomesHeredityMitosisDrosophilaDrosophila melanogaster"MicroSort, developed in 1990 by the Genetics and IVF Institute, is a form of pre-conception sex selection technology for humans. Laboratories…
Technologyin vitroFertilization in vitro, HumanFertilization in VitroSperm donorsThe spinal column is the central structure in the vertebrate body from which stability, movement, and posture all derive. The vertebrae of the spine…
Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and AbnormalitiesReproductionVertebratesCongenital DisordersFetal programming, or prenatal programming, is a concept that suggests certain events occurring during critical points of pregnancy may cause…
Diabetes in pregnancyMaternal-Fetal ExchangeMetabolism in pregnancyMaternal-Fetal MedicineMothers--NutritionTorsten Nils Wiesel studied visual information processing and development in the US during the twentieth century. He performed multiple experiments…
VisionVisual pathwaysNobel Prize winnersNeural networks (Neurobiology)Neural ReceptorsIn humans, sex determination is the process that determines the biological sex of an offspring and, as a result, the sexual characteristics that they…
Sex DeterminationGenetic sex determinationIntersex peopleDiscrimination against intersex peopleStevens, N. M. (Nettie Maria), 1861-1912