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Morphogenesis: An Essay on Development (1952), by John Tyler Bonner
By: Mary E. Sunderland
| Published: May 09, 2008
Throughout his long and fruitful career John Tyler Bonner has made great strides in understanding basic issues of embryology and developmental-…
LiteratureMorphogenesisPublications
"Development, Plasticity and Evolution of Butterfly Eyespot Patterns" (1996), by Paul M. Brakefield et al.
By: Yawen Zou
| Published: Sep 10, 2013
Paul M. Brakefield and his research team in Leiden, the Netherlands, examined the development, plasticity, and evolution of butterfly eyespot…
ButterfliesDevelopmental BiologyPhenotypic plasticityGenotype-environment interactionEvolutionary developmental biology
Viktor Hamburger's Study of Central-Peripheral Relations in the Development of Nervous System
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: Nov 19, 2010
An important question throughout the history of embryology is whether the formation of a biological structure is predetermined or shaped by its…
Hamburger, Viktor, 1900-2001ExperimentsNervous SystemCell Death
“Prenatal Stress, Glucocorticoids and the Programming of the Brain” (2001), by Leonie Welberg and Jonathan Seckl
By: Carrie Keller
| Published: Sep 24, 2020
In 2001, researchers Leonie Welberg and Jonathan Seckl published the literature review “Prenatal Stress, Glucocorticoids, and the Programming of the…
LiteratureFetal malnutritionFetal behaviorPrenatal influencesPrenatal Care
"The Developmental Capacity of Nuclei Taken from Intestinal Epithelium Cells of Feeding Tadpoles" (1962), by John B. Gurdon
By: Giselle Lee
| Published: Mar 16, 2017
In 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 laevis
"The Potency of the First Two Cleavage Cells in Echinoderm Development. Experimental Production of Partial and Double Formations" (1891-1892), by Hans Driesch
By: Megan Kearl
| Published: Jan 01, 2012
Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch was a late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century philosopher and developmental biologist. In the spring of 1891 Driesch…
ExperimentsPublicationsSea Urchins
Effects of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure on Central Nervous System Development
By: Erica O'Neil
| Published: Sep 12, 2010
Prenatal exposure to alcohol (ethanol) results in a continuum of physical, neurological, behavioral, and learning defects collectively grouped under…
fetal alcohol syndromeReproductionHuman Development
"Experiments in Transplanting Limbs and Their Bearing Upon the Problems of the Development of Nerves" (1907), by Ross Granville Harrison
By: Adam R. Navis
| Published: Nov 08, 2007
In his 1907 paper, "Experiments in Transplanting Limbs and Their Bearing Upon the Problems of the Development of Nerves," in the Journal of…
TransplantationExperimentsFrogsAmphibians
Hamburger-Hamilton Staging Series (1951)
By: Maria Doty
| Published: Jun 10, 2011
In 1951 Viktor Hamburger and Howard Hamilton created an embryonic staging series from a combination of photographs and drawings from other…
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Stanley Alan Plotkin's Development of a Rubella Vaccine (1969)
By: Christian H. Ross
| Published: Jun 28, 2017
In the US during the late 1960s, Stanley Alan Plotkin, John D. Farquhar, Michael Katz, and Fritz Buser isolated a strain of the infectious disease…
RubellaRubella--VaccinationRubella in pregnancyRubella vaccinesMMR Vaccine