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Barack Obama Executive Order 13505, November 2008
By: Aroob Khokhar
| Published: Jun 17, 2010
On 20 November 2009 Democrat Barack Obama replaced Republican George W. Bush as president of the United States. Obama soon initiated changes to Bush'…
LawStem Cells
Oliver Allison Ryder III (1946– )
By: Bailey Renee, Karen Love
| Published: Sep 14, 2017
Oliver Allison Ryder studied chromosomal evolution and endangered species in efforts for wildlife conservation and preservation at the San Diego Zoo…
San Diego ZooEscherichia coliPrzewalski's horseQuaggaBenirschke, Kurt
"On the Origin of Mitosing Cells" (1967), by Lynn Sagan
By: Dorothy Regan Haskett
| Published: Apr 15, 2014
On the Origin of Mitosing Cells by Lynn Sagan appeared in the March 1967 edition of the Journal of Theoretical Biology. At the time the article was…
LiteratureMitosisEndosymbiosisflagellasymbiosis
James Alexander Thomson (1958- )
By: Ke Wu
| Published: Feb 01, 2011
James Alexander Thomson, affectionately known as Jamie Thomson, is an American developmental biologist whose pioneering work in isolating and…
PeopleThomson, James A., Dr.Stem CellsBiography
“Part-Human Chimeras: Worrying the Facts, Probing the Ethics” (2007), by Françoise Baylis and Jason Scott Robert
By: Alexis Darby
| Published: Jun 19, 2021
In 2007, Françoise Baylis and Jason Scott Robert published “Part-Human Chimeras: Worrying the Facts, Probing the Ethics” in The American Journal of…
LiteratureChimerismNeuronsChimeraGenetics
Telomerase in Human Development
By: Zane Bartlett
| Published: Mar 23, 2015
Telomerase is an enzyme that regulates the lengths of telomeres in the cells of many organisms, and in humans it begins to function int the early…
TelomeraseTelomereDNAMolecular BiologySomatic embryogenesis
Beatrice Mintz (1922–2022)
By: Adam R. Navis
| Published: Jan 21, 2009
Beatrice Mintz is a brilliant researcher who has developed techniques essential for many aspects of research on mouse development. She produced the…
PeopleBiographyMiceCancer
Michael D. West (1953- )
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: Jun 23, 2010
Michael D. West is a biomedical entrepreneur and investigator whose aim has been to extend human longevity with biomedical interventions. His focus…
PeopleStem CellsBiographyRegeneration
Tay-Sachs Disease
By: Kristin Kelley
| Published: Oct 29, 2010
In 1881 British opthalmologist Warren Tay made an unusual observation. He reported a cherry-red spot on the retina of a one-year-old patient, a…
Tay-Sachs DiseaseCongenital DisordersHeredity