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Leuprorelin as a Treatment for Endometriosis
By: Anna Guerrero, Emily Santora
| Published: Nov 30, 2019
Leuprolide acetate, or leuprorelin, is a manufactured drug that has been prescribed as a treatment for endometriosis, a medical condition in which…
EndometriosisEndometriumDrug utilizationDrugs--AdministrationUterus
“Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain: Epidemiological Evidence of the Relationship and Implications” (2005), by Arnaud Fauconnier and Charles Chapron
By: Anna Guerrero, Emily Santora
| Published: Nov 30, 2019
Arnaud Fauconnier and Charles Chapron published “Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain: Epidemiological Evidence of the Relationship and Implications,”…
LiteratureEndometriosisEndometriumEndometrium--BiopsyLaparoscopy
Sperm Capacitation - Image
By: Katherine Koczwara
| Published: Sep 23, 2019
The male body, followed by male reproductive organs from which the sperm originates, is depicted from top to bottom at the left.
SpermatozoaSpermSperm Capacitation
“A Proposed Structure for the Nucleic Acids” (1953) by Linus Pauling and Robert Brainard Corey
By: Victoria Hernandez
| Published: Aug 26, 2019
In February 1953, Linus Pauling and Robert Brainard Corey, two scientists working at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California,…
LiteratureDNAGeneticsX-ray crystallography--TechniqueCrystallography, X-Ray
“Studies on the Chemical Nature of the Substance Inducing Transformation of Pneumococcal Types: Induction of Transformation by a Desoxyribonucleic Acid Fraction Isolated from Pneumococcus Type III” (1944) by Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod and Maclyn McCarty
By: Victoria Hernandez
| Published: Jul 08, 2019
In 1944, Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty published an article in which they concluded that genes, or molecules that dictate how…
LiteratureTransformation, BacterialBacterial TransformationStreptococcus pneumoniaeBacterial genetics
The First Successful Cloning of a Gaur (2000), by Advanced Cell Technology - Image
By: Katherine Koczwara
| Published: Jun 11, 2019
The first successful cloning of a gaur in 2000 by Advanced Cell Technology involved the cells of two animals: an egg cell from a domestic cow and a
GaurCloningCattle--CloningExperimentsOrganisms
William Thomas Astbury (1898–1961)
By: Victoria Hernandez
| Published: Jun 03, 2019
William Thomas Astbury studied the structures of fibrous materials, including fabrics, proteins, and deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, in England during…
DNAX-Ray CrystallographyX-ray crystallography--TechniqueNucleic AcidsDNA-protein interactions
“Use of reproductive technology for sex selection for nonmedical reasons” (2015), by the Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine
By: Alysse Blight
| Published: May 27, 2019
In June 2015, the Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, or ASRM, published “Use of reproductive technology for sex…
LiteratureSex PreselectionFertilization in VitroReproductive technologyHuman reproductive technology
Plowman v. Fort Madison Community Hospital (2017)
By: Victoria Higginbotham
| Published: May 23, 2019
In June 2017, the Iowa Supreme Court decided the case Plowman v. Fort Madison Community Hospital, or Plowman v. FMCH, and ruled that women who gave…
LawWrongful lifeWrongful BirthAbnormalities, HumanIowa
The Use of Morphine and Scopolamine to Induce Twilight Sleep
By: Jessica Cartwright
| Published: May 02, 2019
In 1907, researchers Bernhardt Kronig and Carl Gauss combined the drugs morphine and scopolamine to induce twilight sleep in women during childbirth…
MorphineScopolamineAnesthesia AdjuvantsAnesthesiaLabor (Obstetrics)