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A Series of YouTube Videos Detailing the “CRISPR Babies” Experiment (2018), by He Jiankui
By: Risa Aria Schnebly, Brianna Ellis
| Published: Jul 31, 2021
In 2018, He Jiankui uploaded a series of videos to a YouTube channel titled “The He Lab” that detailed one of the first instances of a successful…
Literaturegene editingGenome EditingCRISPR (Genetics)CRISPR-associated protein 9
In the Womb (2005), by Toby Mcdonald and National Geographic Channel
By: Inbar Maayan
| Published: Nov 20, 2010
Written, produced, and directed by Toby Mcdonald, the 2005 National Geographic Channel film In the Womb uses the most recent technology to provide an…
LiteratureHuman DevelopmentReproductionMoviesFetus
Clinica Para Madres (1934-1950)
By: Claudia Nunez-Eddy
| Published: Oct 12, 2016
The Clinica Para Madres (Mother’s Clinic) opened in Tucson, Arizona, in December of 1934 as the first birth control clinic in Arizona. After moving…
OrganizationSanger, Margaret, 1879-1966ArizonaPlanned Parenthood Federation of AmericaContraception
Meiosis in Humans
By: Inbar Maayan
| Published: Mar 24, 2011
Meiosis, the process by which sexually-reproducing organisms generate gametes (sex cells), is an essential precondition for the normal formation of…
MeiosisReproductionHuman Development
Litowitz v. Litowitz (2002)
By: Mark Zhang, Jennifer E. Chapman
| Published: Dec 02, 2013
In a dispute over the allocation of cryopreserved preembryos, the Supreme Court of Washington resolved the case of David J. Litowitz v. Becky M.…
LawFrozen human embryosFertilization in VitroEmbryosPregnancy
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy
By: Federica Turriziani Colonna
| Published: Dec 22, 2014
The Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (Anton Dohrn Zoological Station) is a public research institute focusing on biology and biodiversity. Hereafter…
OrganizationStazione zoologica di NapoliDevelopmental BiologyZoologyEmbryology
Effects of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure on Ocular Development
By: Erica O'Neil
| Published: May 04, 2011
Maternal consumption of alcohol (ethanol) can result in a range of alcohol-induced developmental defects. In humans, those collective birth defects…
fetal alcohol syndromeReproductionHuman Development
Studies in Spermatogenesis (1905), by Nettie Maria Stevens
By: Troy Cox
| Published: Jan 22, 2014
Studies in Spermatogenesis is a two volume book written by Nettie Maria Stevens, and published by the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1905 and…
LiteratureSpermatogenesisGenetic sex determinationSex DifferentiationEmbryos
Jacques Loeb (1859-1924)
By: Steve Elliott
| Published: Jun 10, 2009
Jacques Loeb experimented on embryos in Europe and the United States at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Among…
PeopleParthenogenesisBiography
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…
LiteraturePublicationsOvaAnatomy