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Lennart Nilsson (1922- )
By: Olivia Conley
| Published: Jun 24, 2010
Lennart Nilsson is a world-renowned photojournalist recognized for his exploratory images of the inside of the human body. Throughout his career,…
PeopleReproductionBiographyHuman DevelopmentMorphology
Women’s Health Initiative (1991–)
By: Megha Pillai
| Published: Jul 29, 2024
In 1991, the US National Institutes of Health, or NIH, launched the Women’s Health Initiative, or WHI, which is one of the largest and one of the…
MenopausepostmenopauseHormone Replacement Therapy, Post-MenopausalOsteoporosis, PostmenopausalEstrogen Replacement Therapy
Boris Ephrussi (1901-1979)
By: Divyash Chhetri
| Published: Sep 15, 2014
Boris Ephrussi studied fruit flies, yeast, and mouse genetics and development while working in France and the US during the twentieth century. In…
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.MutationTissue cultureDrosophilaTissue Transplantation
Women’s Field Army (1936–1948)
By: Emily Santora, Alexis Darby
| Published: Jul 31, 2021
From 1936 to 1945, the Women’s Field Army, hereafter the WFA, educated women in the US on the early symptoms, prevention, and treatment of…
OrganizationCancercarcinomapublic healthUterine Cervical Neoplasms
Categorization of Conservative, Semi-Conservative, and Dispersive DNA Replication Theories (1953–1956)
By: Victoria Hernandez
| Published: Oct 31, 2019
In 1956, Gunther Stent, a scientist at the University of California Berkeley in Berkeley, California, coined the terms conservative, semi-…
DNADNA ReplicationDNA HelicasesGenesHeredity
Roger Sperry’s Split Brain Experiments (1959–1968)
By: Dina A. Lienhard
| Published: Dec 27, 2017
In the 1950s and 1960s, Roger Sperry performed experiments on cats, monkeys, and humans to study functional differences between the two hemispheres…
Split brainBrain--Localization of functionsCorpus callosumBrain MappingSplit-Brain Procedure
James David Ebert (1921-2001)
By: Sheraden Seward
| Published: Sep 12, 2008
James David Ebert studied the developmental processes of chicks and of viruses in the US during the twentieth century. He also helped build and grow…
PeopleBiographyCarnegie Institution of WashingtonLaboratories
Mary Warnock (1924–2019 )
By: Jonathon J. LaTourelle
| Published: Sep 29, 2014
Baroness Mary Warnock of Weeke, a philosopher and crossbench member and Life Peer of the United Kingdom's House of Lords, participated in several…
Fertilization in vitro, HumanFertilization in vitro, Human--Law and legislationFertilization in vitro, Human--Moral and ethical aspectsWarnock, Mary, 1808-1900Reproductive technology
Kass v. Kass (1998)
By: Mark Zhang, Jennifer E. Chapman
| Published: Nov 01, 2013
In Maureen Kass v. Steven Kass (1998), the Court of Appeals of New York in Albany, New York, ruled that the state should generally consider IVF…
LawFrozen human embryosFertilization in VitroInformed consent (Medical law)Surrogate mothers
Title 1, Subtitle B, Parts I, II, and III of the “National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993” (1993)
By: Caroline Meek
| Published: Aug 26, 2019
In 1993, the NIH published the Revitalization Act that established guidelines for minorities’ and women’s participation in clinical research. Before…
LawLegislation, DrugClinical medicine--ResearchMedical research personnelNational Institutes of Health