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Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903-1967)
By: Aliya Buttar
| Published: Nov 24, 2008
Gregory Goodwin Pincus, one of the original researchers responsible for the development of the first oral contraceptive pill, was born in Woodbine,…
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Progestin: Synthetic Progesterone
By: Aliya Buttar, Sheraden Seward
| Published: Nov 17, 2008
Progestin is a synthetic form of progesterone, a naturally occurring hormone, which plays an important role in the female reproductive cycle. During…
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The Marine Biological Laboratory-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library
By: Jane Maienschein
| Published: Oct 25, 2008
In 1888 when students and investigators arrived in Woods Hole for the inaugural session of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), they recognized…
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Jane Maienschein (1950- )
By: EP Editorial Team
| Published: Oct 24, 2008
Jane Maienschein is the daughter of Joyce Kylander and Fred Maienschein, and was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on 23 September 1950. She attended…
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Arizona State University Embryo Project Photograph Collections
By: Jane Maienschein
| Published: Oct 24, 2008
In the 1970s Stanford University Embryologist Harold Heath sent a box of photographs to Frederick B. Churchill, who was a Professor in the History…
Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole
By: Editorial Team, EP
| Published: Oct 24, 2008
The Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, began in 1888 with one building housing researchers upstairs and students in a shared…
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Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole
By: Editorial Team, EP
| Published: Oct 24, 2008
The Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, began in 1888 with one building housing researchers upstairs and students in a shared…
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The Marine Biological Laboratory
By: Jane Maienschein
| Published: Oct 24, 2008
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) was founded in 1888 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Woods Hole was already the site for the government 's US…
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The Biological Bulletin
By: Jane Maienschein
| Published: Oct 24, 2008
From 1886 to 1889 Charles Otis Whitman was director of the Allis Lake Laboratory in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The lab was established by Edward Phelps…
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De Formatione Ovi et Pulli (1621), by Girolamo Fabrici
By: Hilary Gilson
| Published: Sep 30, 2008
The embryological treatise De formatione ovi et pulli (On the Formation of the Egg and of the Chick) was written by anatomist and embryologist…
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