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The Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (Anton Dohrn Zoological Station) is a public research institute focusing on biology and biodiversity. Hereafter…
OrganizationStazione zoologica di NapoliDevelopmental BiologyZoologyEmbryologyMaternal consumption of alcohol (ethanol) can result in a range of alcohol-induced developmental defects. In humans, those collective birth defects…
fetal alcohol syndromeReproductionHuman DevelopmentStudies 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 DifferentiationEmbryosJacques Loeb experimented on embryos in Europe and the United States at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Among…
PeopleParthenogenesisBiographyThe embryological treatise De formatione ovi et pulli (On the Formation of the Egg and of the Chick) was written by anatomist and embryologist…
LiteraturePublicationsOvaAnatomyFor more than 2000 years, embryologists, biologists, and philosophers have studied and detailed the processes that follow fertilization. The…
TechnologyCell LineageThe term homunculus is Latin for "little man." It is used in neurology today to describe the map in the brain of sensory neurons in each part of the…
The Massachusetts Supreme Court in a case of first impression decided that a prior written agreement between a husband and wife regarding the…
LawFertilizationReproductionReproductive RightsHuman pluripotent stem cells are valued for their potential to form numerous specialized cells and for their longevity. In the US, where a portion of…
LiteratureKass, LeonStem CellsPublicationsethicsIn Jeter v. Mayo, the Court of Appeals of Arizona in 2005 held that a cryopreserved, three-day-old pre-embryo is not a person for purposes of Arizona…
LawCryopreservationEmbryo transplantationFrozen human embryosFertilization in Vitro