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Oral Glucose Tolerance Test for Gestational Diabetes
By: Alison Lane
| Published: Dec 09, 2020
In the twentieth century, researchers developed the oral glucose tolerance test, or OGTT, as a method to diagnose different types of diabetes, a…
TechnologyDiagnosisDiabetes--DiagnosisGlucose tolerance testsBlood Glucose
Thesis: The ‘History and Nature of Science’ in the Era of Standards-Based Reform
By: Cera Lawrence
| Published: Dec 09, 2020
The goal of science education in the United States is promoting scientific literacy for all students. The goal necessitates understanding the nature…
literacyEducationGeneral EducationReadingWriting
Thesis: Abortion: An objective lens at the formation of the polarization and stigma
By: Sepehr Abdi-Moradi
| Published: Dec 02, 2020
With all of the tension surrounding the moral significance of the abortion issue, the question arises: How did specific figureheads, events, and…
AbortionStigmatizationReproduction
“The Social and Psychological Impact of Endometriosis on Women’s Lives: A Critical Narrative Review” (2013), by Lorraine Culley, Caroline Law, Nicky Hudson, Elaine Denny, Helene Mitchell, Miriam Baumgarten, and Nicholas Raine-Fenning
By: Emily Santora
| Published: Dec 02, 2020
In “The Social and Psychological Impact of Endometriosis on Women’s Lives: A Critical Narrative Review,” hereafter “Social and Psychological Impact…
LiteratureEndometriosisGynecologic pathologyUrogynecologyGynecologic Surgery
The Doula Project (2007– )
By: Richa Venkatraman
| Published: Nov 27, 2020
The Doula Project, cofounded in 2007 as The Abortion Doula Project by Mary Mahoney, Lauren Mitchell, and Miriam Zoila Perez, is a nonprofit…
OrganizationAbortionPro-choice movementNatural childbirthWomen's health services
Thesis: Visualizing the Embryo: Establishing Procedures for Digital Image Production with the Embryo Project
By: Neekta Hamidi
| Published: Nov 27, 2020
Until 2013, the Embryo Project Encyclopedia had not presented images in articles due to the fact that there was no formal protocol for developing…
Digital imagesAuthorship--Style manualsGuideline AdherenceProtocol Compliance
Thesis: The Hwang Woo-Suk Scandal and the Development of Bioethics in South Korea
By: Anne Clay
| Published: Nov 26, 2020
In 2004, the South Korean geneticist Woo-Suk Hwang published what was widely regarded as the most important research finding in biotechnology that…
ethicsInformed consent (Medical law)Scientific MisconductFraud, ScientificScientific Dishonesty
“The Intergenerational Effects of Fetal Programming: Non-genomic Mechanisms for the Inheritance of Low Birth Weight and Cardiovascular Risk” (2004), by Amanda J. Drake and Brian R. Walker
By: Carrie Keller
| Published: Nov 26, 2020
In 2004, Amanda J. Drake and Brian R. Walker published “The Intergenerational Effects of Fetal Programming: Non-genomic Mechanisms for the…
LiteratureReproductive HealthGestationFetal MonitoringFetal Distress
Thesis: The Human Genome Project and ELSI: The Imperative of Technology and Reduction of the Public Ethics Debate
By: Tito Brige Carvalho
| Published: Nov 20, 2020
Portrayed as the Manhattan Project of the late 20th century, the Human Genome Project, or HGP, not only undertook the science of sequencing the human…
ethicsMoralityHuman Genome ProjectGenome Project, HumanOrganizations
James Edgar Till (1931– )
By: Ajeet Bains
| Published: Nov 20, 2020
James Edgar Till is a biophysicist known for establishing the existence of stem cells along with Ernest McCulloch in 1963. Stem cells are…
PeopleStem CellsHematopoietic Stem CellsProgenitor CellsStem cells--Effect of radiation on