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Berman v. Allan (1979)
By: Mark Zhang
| Published: Sep 29, 2011
The Supreme Court of New Jersey decided the case of Berman v. Allan on 26 June 1979, brought by Shirley Berman and Paul Berman and their daughter…
LawWrongful lifeReproductionbioethics
Pre- and Post-natal Growth Deficiencies and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
By: Erica O'Neil
| Published: May 04, 2011
Maternal consumption of alcohol (ethanol) during pregnancy can inhibit prenatal growth, resulting in fetuses that are small for gestational age.…
fetal alcohol syndromeHuman Development
"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
"Viable Offspring Derived from Fetal and Adult Mammalian Cells" (1997), by Ian Wilmut et al.
By: Zane Bartlett
| Published: Oct 10, 2014
In the 1990s, Ian Wilmut, Jim McWhir, and Keith Campbell performed experiments while working at the Roslin Institute in Roslin, Scotland. Wilmut,…
CloningMolecular CloningClone CellsCampbell, Keith, 1954-2012Roslin Institute
"Formation of Genetically Mosaic Mouse Embryos and Early Development of Lethal (t12/t12)-Normal Mosaics" (1964), by Beatrice Mintz
By: Adam R. Navis
| Published: Jan 13, 2009
The paper "Formation of Genetically Mosaic Mouse Embryos and Early Development of Lethal (t12/t12)-Normal Mosaics," by Beatrice Mintz, describes a…
Mintz, BeatriceExperimentsMice
Alfred Day Hershey (1908–1997)
By: Victoria Hernandez
| Published: Apr 29, 2019
During the twentieth century in the United States, Alfred Day Hershey studied phages, or viruses that infect bacteria, and experimentally verified…
Hershey, A. D. (Alfred Day), 1908-Bacteriophage lambdaPhage lambdaBacteriophages--GeneticsBacteriophages
Process of Eukaryotic Embryonic Development
By: Inbar Maayan
| Published: Oct 20, 2010
All sexually reproducing, multicellular diploid eukaryotes begin life as embryos. Understanding the stages of embryonic development is vital to…
EukaryotaEukaryotesOntogeny
Frank Rattray Lillie's Study of Freemartins (1914-1920)
By: Mary Drago
| Published: Mar 14, 2014
Frank Rattray Lillie's research on freemartins from 1914 to 1920 in the US led to the theory that hormones partly caused for sex differentiation in…
Lillie, Frank Rattray, 1870-1947Intersexuality in animalsFreemartinismHormonesExperiments
Dictyostelium discoideum
By: Mary E. Sunderland
| Published: Jun 10, 2009
Dictyostelium discoideum is a cellular slime mold that serves as an important model organism in a variety of fields. Cellular slime molds have an…
DictyosteliidaOrganisms
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