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Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Experiments by Kazutoshi Takahashi and Shinya Yamanaka in 2006 and 2007
By: Zane Bartlett
| Published: Jun 01, 2015
In 2006, Kazutoshi Takahashi and Shinya Yamanaka reprogrammed mice fibroblast cells, which can produce only other fibroblast cells, to become…
Stem cells--ResearchStem CellsNobel PrizesEmbryologyDevelopmental Biology
People's Padre: An Autobiography (1954), by Emmett McLoughlin
By: Claudia Nunez-Eddy
| Published: Nov 08, 2016
Emmett McLoughlin wrote People's Padre: An Autobiography, based on his experiences as a Roman Catholic priest advocating for the health of people in…
LiteratureBirth control clinicsAbortionCatholic ChurchReproductive Rights
Nightlight Christian Adoptions, et al. v. Thompson, et al. (2001)
By: Megan Kearl
| Published: Sep 28, 2010
Nightlight Christian Adoptions et al. v. Thompson et al. was a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on 8…
OrganizationStem CellsReproduction
Arthur William Galston (1920–2008)
By: Cecilia Chou
| Published: Apr 27, 2017
Arthur W. Galston studied plant hormones in the United States during the late-twentieth century. His dissertation on the flowering process of soybean…
Agent OrangeSoybeanTetrachlorodibenzodioxinHerbicidesDefoliants
The Shettles Method of Sex Selection
By: Alysse Blight
| Published: Apr 03, 2019
In the 1960s in the United States Landrum B. Shettles developed the Shettles method, which is a procedure for couples to use prior to and during an…
TechnologySex PreselectionSex PredeterminationFamily PlanningSex Chromosomes
Anencephaly
By: Jesse King
| Published: Feb 13, 2013
Anencephaly is an open neural tube defect, meaning that part of the neural tube does not properly close or that it has reopened during early…
fetal developmentFetus--AbnormalitiesBirth DefectsEmbryologyPregnancy
“Child Development in the Context of Disaster, War, and Terrorism: Pathways of Risk and Resilience” (2012), by Ann S. Masten and Angela J. Narayan
By: Hira Ali
| Published: Nov 15, 2017
In 2012 Ann S. Masten and Angela J. Narayan published the article “Child Development in the Context of Disaster, War, and Terrorism: Pathways of Risk…
LiteraturePost-Traumatic Stress DisorderChildren and warChild disaster victimsPost-traumatic stress disorder in children
Thesis: The Hwang Woo-Suk Scandal and the Development of Bioethics in South Korea
By: Anne Clay
| Published: Nov 26, 2020
In 2004, the South Korean geneticist Woo-Suk Hwang published what was widely regarded as the most important research finding in biotechnology that…
ethicsInformed consent (Medical law)Scientific MisconductFraud, ScientificScientific Dishonesty
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby (2014)
By: Reem Gerais
| Published: Feb 26, 2017
In the 2014 case Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, the US Supreme Court ruled that the contraceptive mandate promulgated under the Patient Protection and…
LawUnited States. Supreme CourtContraceptionEmployer-sponsored health insuranceEmployer-sponsored health insurance--Law and legislation
George Otto Gey (1899-1970)
By: Madeleine Zheng
| Published: Mar 21, 2022
George Otto Gey was a scientist in the US who studied cells and cultivated the first continuous human cell line in 1951. Gey derived the cells for…
HeLa CellsCell MovementKB CellsCell CommunicationCulture Media, Conditioned