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Jacques Loeb developed procedures to make embryos from unfertilized sea urchin eggs in 1899. Loeb called the procedures "artificial parthenogenesis…
ParthenogenesisExperimentsSea UrchinsIn 1952 Robert Briggs and Thomas J. King published their article, "Transplantation of Living Nuclei from Blastula Cells into Enucleated Frogs' Eggs…
Cell nuclei--TransplantationNuclear Transfer TechniquesExperimentsNuclear TransplantationTransplantationMarcello Malpighi studied chick embryos with microscopes in Italy during the seventeenth century. Trained as a medical doctor, he was among the first…
MicroscopyHistologyChick EmbryoFrancesco Redi, son of Florentine physician Cecilia de' Ghinci and Gregorio Redi, was born in Arezzo, Italy, on 18 February 1626. He studied…
BiographyThe Whelan Method of Sex Selection is a method for increasing a couple’s probability of conceiving an infant of the desired sex through timing…
TechnologySex PreselectionGenetic sex determinationConceptionFertilizationPolycystic ovarian syndrome or PCOS is one of the most common reproductive conditions in women, and its symptoms include cystic ovaries, menstrual…
Polycystic ovary syndromeHirsutismOligomenorrheaMenstruation DisturbancesAmenorrheaClomiphene citrate, more commonly known by its brand names Clomid and Serophene, is a medication prescribed to women to stimulate ovulation in order…
TechnologyClomipheneFertilityPatrick Christopher Steptoe was a British gynecologist responsible for major advances in gynecology and reproductive technology. Throughout his…
PeopleLaparoscopyReproductionBiographymedicineEdmund Beecher Wilson experimented with Amphioxus (Branchiostoma) embryos in 1892 to identify what caused their cells to differentiate into new types…
Wilson, Edmund B. (Edmund Beecher), 1856-1939AmphioxusEmbryosEmbryologyDevelopmental BiologyBiologist William Keith Brooks studied embryological development in invertebrates and used his results as evidence for theories of evolution and…
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