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John George Children (1777–1852)
By: Brittany Kaminsky
| Published: Mar 25, 2018
John George Children described several species of insects and animals while working at the British Museum in London, England, in the eighteenth and…
Electric batteriesPythons
“The History of Twins, As a Criterion of the Relative Powers of Nature and Nurture” (1875), by Francis Galton
By: Mudhaffar Bahjat
| Published: Dec 19, 2017
In the article “The History of Twins, As a Criterion of the Relative Powers of Nature and Nurture,” Francis Galton describes his study of twins.…
LiteratureNature and nurtureGeneticsHeredityTwins
Light Therapy for Neonatal Jaundice
By: Arianna Bradley
| Published: Aug 17, 2017
Light therapy, also called phototherapy, exposes infants with jaundice, a yellowing of the skin and eyes, to artificial or natural light to break…
TechnologyPhototherapyJaundiceKernicterusBilirubin
Simon Edward Fisher (1970-)
By: Kat Fowler
| Published: Apr 27, 2017
Simon Edward Fisher studied the genes that control speech and language in England and the Netherlands in the late twentieth and early twenty-first…
GeneticsWellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics (Oxford, England)Language AcquisitionTranscription factorsForkhead Transcription Factors
The Effectiveness of Phototherapy in Premature Infants (1968)
By: Arianna Bradley
| Published: Feb 23, 2017
In 1968, pediatric researchers Jerold Lucey, Mario Ferreiro, and Jean Hewitt conducted an experimental trial that determined that exposure to light…
PhototherapyJaundiceKernicterusBilirubinHyperbilirubinemia
"On the Induction of Embryonic Primordia by Implantation of Organizers from Different Species" (1924), Hilde Mangold's Dissertation
By: Megan Kearl, Kate MacCord
| Published: Dec 19, 2012
Hilde Proscholdt Mangold was a doctoral student at the Zoological Institute at the University of Freiburg in Freiburg, Germany, from 1920-1923.…
LiteratureEmbryosTrembley, Abraham, 1710-1784GastrulationEmbryology
Craig C. Mello (1960- )
By: May Catherine
| Published: Nov 30, 2011
Craig C. Mello is an American developmental biologist and Nobel Laureate, who helped discover RNA interference (RNAi). Along with his colleague…
PeopleRNA InterferenceBiography
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
On Growth and Form (1917), by Sir D'Arcy Thompson
By: Mark A. Ulett
| Published: Jun 27, 2010
Of Sir D'Arcy Thompson's nearly 300 publications, the theoretical treatise On Growth and Form, first published in 1917, remains the principal work…
LiteraturePublicationsForms
Ernest Everett Just (1883-1941)
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 16, 2010
Ernest Everett Just was an early twentieth century American experimental embryologist involved in research at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)…
FertilizationBiographyInvertebrates