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Retinoids As Teratogens
By: Chanapa Tantibanchachai
| Published: Feb 28, 2014
Vitamin A (retinol) is an essential vitamin in the daily functioning of human beings that helps regulate cellular differentiation of epithelial…
RetinoidsVitamin A in the bodyTeratogenicity testingAbnormalities, HumanTeratogenic agents
"The Outgrowth of the Nerve Fiber as a Mode of Protoplasmic Movement" (1910), by Ross Granville Harrison
By: Adam R. Navis
| Published: Nov 13, 2007
In "The Outgrowth of the Nerve Fiber as a Mode of Protoplasmic Movement," Ross Granville Harrison explores the growth of nerve fibers in vitro. The…
ExperimentsNerve Growth FactorTissue culture
James Marion Sims (1813-1883)
By: Amanda Andrei
| Published: Apr 08, 2013
James Marion Sims developed a surgical cure for ruptures of the wall separating the bladder from the vagina during labor, ruptures called vesico-…
PeopleSims, J. Marion (James Marion), 1813-1883Speculum (Medicine)Fistula, Vesico-vaginalSurgery
“A Two-Factor Hypothesis of Freezing Injury: Evidence from Chinese Hamster Tissue-Culture Cells” (1972), by Peter Mazur, Stanley Leibo, and Ernest Chu
By: Risa Aria Schnebly
| Published: Mar 02, 2021
In 1972, Peter Mazur, Stanley Leibo, and Ernest Chu published, “A Two-Factor Hypothesis of Freezing Injury: Evidence from Chinese Hamster Tissue-…
LiteratureCryonicsCryosurgeryMedicine--History--20th centuryOsmosis
Vegas Baby (2016)
By: Jessica Cartwright
| Published: Jun 03, 2019
In 2016, Runaway Films released the documentary Vegas Baby. The film, directed by Amanda Micheli, follows three women who struggle with infertility…
LiteratureLas Vegas Valley (Nev.)Fertilization in VitroInfertilityInfertility, Female
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
Nikolai Ivanovic Vavilov (1887-1943)
By: Marci Baranski
| Published: Apr 15, 2014
Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov proposed theories of plant genetic diversity and participated in the political debate about genetics in Soviet Russia in…
Agrobiodiversity
Tomorrow's Children (1934)
By: Grace Kim
| Published: May 30, 2017
Tomorrow's Children is a film that tells the story of Alice Mason, a young woman whom the US government forcibly sterilizes because she comes from a…
LiteratureEugenicsInvoluntary SterilizationCompulsory SterilizationCensorship
Gestational Diabetes
By: Alison Lane
| Published: Nov 17, 2020
Gestational diabetes is a medical condition that causes blood sugar levels to become abnormally high, which manifests for the first-time during…
Diabetes in pregnancyGestational DiabetesPregnancy--ComplicationsHigh-Risk PregnancyDiabetes in women
Ponseti's Treatment for Congenital Clubfoot (1963)
By: Katherine Gandee
| Published: Dec 27, 2017
In 1963, Ignacio Ponseti and Eugene Smoley experimentally determined an effective and minimally invasive method of treating congenital clubfoot.…
ClubfootFoot--AbnormalitiesOrthopedicsCongenital Talipes EquinovarusClubfoot, Congenital