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Alec Jeffreys’s Experiments to Identify Individuals by Their Beta-globin Genes (1977-1979)
By: Corey Harbison
| Published: Jul 20, 2017
In a series of experiments in the late 1970s, Alec J. Jeffreys in the UK and Richard A. Flavell in the Netherlands developed a technique to detect…
DNA fingerprintingForensic sciencesGlobin genesNucleic acid hybridizationIn Situ Hybridization
Serial Cultivation of Human Diploid Cells in the Lab (1958–1961) by Leonard Hayflick and Paul S. Moorhead
By: Christian H. Ross
| Published: Apr 27, 2017
From 1958 to 1961, Leonard Hayflick and Paul Moorhead in the US developed a way in the laboratory to cultivate strains of human cells with complete…
MMR VaccineRubellaRubella--VaccinationFetal tissuesOncogenic Viruses
Ina May Gaskin (1940– )
By: Megan O’Reilly
| Published: Jun 16, 2020
Ina May Gaskin is a certified professional midwife, or CPM, in the US during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. She worked at the…
PeopleChildbirthChildbirth teachersChildbirth at homeChildbirth in literature
The Effects of Bisphenol A on Embryonic Development
By: Tristan Cooper-Roth
| Published: Sep 07, 2010
Bisphenol A (BPA) is an organic compound that was first synthesized by Aleksandr Dianin, a Russian chemist from St. Petersburg, in 1891. The chemical…
bisphenol AReproductionHormonesHuman Development
Vasectomy for Male Sterilization
By: Cole Nichols
| Published: Jun 03, 2024
A vasectomy is a surgery that works to inhibit reproduction by interrupting the passage of sperm through the vas deferens, a tube in the male…
VasectomyVasovasostomyVasectomy ReversalEugenicsSterilization, Reproductive
James G. Wilson's Six Principles of Teratology
By: S. Alexandra Aston
| Published: May 23, 2014
James Graves Wilson's six principles of teratology, published in 1959, guide research on teratogenic agents and their effects on developing organisms…
TeratologyAbnormalities, HumanCongenital AbnormalitiesBirth DefectsCongenital Defects
World Health Organization Guidelines (Option A, B, and B+) for Antiretroviral Drugs to Treat Pregnant Women and Prevent HIV Infection in Infants
By: Sierra Hope Jones, Alexis Darby
| Published: Mar 01, 2021
To address the international Human Immunodeficiency Virus epidemic, the World Health Organization, or WHO, developed three drug treatment regimens…
HIV-positive personsHIV infectionsHIV-positive youthHIV-positive womenHIV-positive children
World Health Organization Guidelines (Option A, B, and B+) for Antiretroviral Drugs to Treat Pregnant Women and Prevent HIV Infection in Infants
By: Sierra Hope Jones, Alexis Darby
| Published: Mar 01, 2021
To address the international Human Immunodeficiency Virus epidemic, the World Health Organization, or WHO, developed three drug treatment regimens…
HIV-positive personsHIV infectionsHIV-positive youthHIV-positive womenHIV-positive children
Albert William Liley (1929–1983)
By: Kathleen O'Connor
| Published: May 11, 2011
Albert William Liley advanced the science of fetal physiology and the techniques of life-saving in utero blood transfusions for fetuses with Rh…
ReproductionBiographyFetus
Theodor Heinrich Boveri (1862-1915)
By: Inbar Maayan
| Published: Mar 03, 2011
Theodor Boveri investigated the mechanisms of heredity. He developed the chromosomal theory of inheritance and the idea of chromosomal individuality…
PeopleHeredityBiography