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Free Hospital for Women Scrapbook by Harvard University Library
By: Kimberly A. Buettner
| Published: Nov 13, 2007
This scrapbook is part of the Harvard University Library's collection on "Working Women, 1800-1930," which is itself part of the Open Collections…
LiteratureOrganizationsethicsReproductionmedicine
Circulatory Changes at Birth
By: Brad Jacobson
| Published: Sep 12, 2010
When placental mammals are born their circulatory systems undergo radical changes as the newborns are prepared for independent life. The lungs are…
Blood CirculationMammalscirculation
August Antonius Rauber (1841-1917)
By: Maria Doty
| Published: Jun 10, 2011
August Antonius Rauber was an embryologist and anatomist who examined gastrulation in avian embryos. He examined the formation of the blastopore,…
PeopleGastrulationChicks
Gustav Jacob Born (1851-1900)
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jul 22, 2009
Gustav Jacob Born was an experimental embryologist whose original work with amphibians served as the platform for his wax-plate method of embryo…
PeopleTransplantationBiographyAmphibians
George Washington Corner (1889-1981)
By: Kimberly A. Buettner
| Published: Nov 01, 2007
As the third director of the Carnegie Institute of Washington s Department of Embryology, George Washington Corner made a number of contributions to…
PeopleBiographyCarnegie Institution of WashingtonEducation
"The Development of the Pronephros during the Embryonic and Early Larval Life of the Catfish
(Ictalurus punctatus)" (1932), by Rachel L. Carson
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Feb 28, 2014
Rachel L. Carson studied biology at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland and graduated in 1933 with an MA upon the completion of her thesis, The…
LiteratureDevelopmental BiologyChannel CatfishEmbryosMorphogenesis
Regeneration
By: Mary E. Sunderland
| Published: Jun 10, 2009
Regeneration is a fascinating phenomenon. The fact that many organisms have the capacity to regenerate lost parts and even remake complete copies of…
Regeneration (Biology)Regeneration
Wilhelm His, Sr. (1831-1904)
By: Kimberly A. Buettner
| Published: Nov 01, 2007
Wilhelm His, Sr. was born on 9 July 1831 in Basel, Switzerland, to Katharina La Roche and Eduard His. He began his medical studies at Basel in 1849…
PeopleBiographyHuman Development
Matthew Howard Kaufman (1942–2013)
By: Lance Villarreal
| Published: Aug 31, 2018
Matthew Kaufman was a professor of anatomy at the University of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh, UK, who specialized in mouse anatomy, development, and…
Stem cells--ResearchStem CellsEmbryology, ExperimentalEmbryologyAnatomy
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