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British embryologist Sir Ian Wilmut, best known for his work in the field of animal genetic engineering and the successful cloning of sheep, was born…
PeopleNuclear Transfer TechniquesBiographyNuclear TransplantationGenetic EngineeringJane Maienschein is the daughter of Joyce Kylander and Fred Maienschein, and was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on 23 September 1950. She attended…
BiographyhistoryphilosophyIn February 1975, leading biology researchers and lawyers participated in what became known as the Asilomar Conference, a meeting to discuss and…
Genetic recombinationRecombinant DNARecombinant DNA VaccinesBioethical IssuesBiohazard ContainmentRobert Alan Good was an American physician and scientific researcher who explored the cellular mechanisms of immunity. His research and discoveries…
PeopleBiographyImmunologyMaternal consumption of alcohol (ethanol) can result in a range of alcohol-induced developmental defects. In humans, those collective birth defects…
fetal alcohol syndromeReproductionHuman DevelopmentMaternal consumption of alcohol (ethanol) during pregnancy can result in a continuum of embryonic developmental abnormalities that vary depending on…
fetal alcohol syndromeReproductionHuman DevelopmentRobert Geoffrey Edwards worked with Patrick Christopher Steptoe to develop in-vitro fertilization (IVF) techniques during the 1960s and 1970s in the…
PeopleFertilization in VitroReproductionBiographyFertilizationIn "The Outgrowth of the Nerve Fiber as a Mode of Protoplasmic Movement," Ross Granville Harrison explores the growth of nerve fibers in vitro. The…
ExperimentsNerve Growth FactorTissue cultureThe Dickey-Wicker Amendment is an amendment attached to the appropriations bills for the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and…
LawbioethicsHuman DevelopmentIlya Ilyich Mechnikov studied phagocytes, immune function, and starfish embryos in Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.…
PhagocytesEmbryology, ExperimentalPhagocytosisEmbryologyImmunology