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Farmers have long relied on genetic diversity to breed new crops, but in the early 1900s scientists began to study the importance of plant genetic…
ContextGermplasm resources, PlantGermplasm resources, Plant--StorageAgrobiodiversityCropsStafford Leak Warren studied nuclear medicine in the United States during the twentieth century. He used radiation to make images of the body for…
Warren, Stafford L. (Stafford Leak), 1896-1981RadiologyMedical radiologyRadiology--ResearchCancer--Interventional radiologyVictor Jollos studied fruit flies and microorganisms in Europe and the US, and he introduced the concept of Dauermodifikationen in the early 1900s.…
ParameciumDrosophilaHeredityProtistaprotozoologyIn the 1980s, researchers at the pharmaceutical company Roussel-Uclaf in Paris, France, helped develop a biological compound called mifepristone.…
Induced AbortionAbortionAbortifacientsReproductive RightsMifepristoneIn 1983, researchers Alan Trounson, John Leeton, Carl Wood, Mandy Besanko, and Angelo Conti published the article “Pregnancy Established in an…
LiteratureFertilization in VitroIn vitro fertilizationEgg donorsTest-Tube BabiesGregory Goodwin Pincus, one of the original researchers responsible for the development of the first oral contraceptive pill, was born in Woodbine,…
PeopleReproductionBiographyContraceptionBy demonstrating the struggle for sound standard of care for non-medical reproductive health care providers during the nineteenth and early twentieth…
Health care reformReproductive Health ServicesReproductive Healthreproductive historyOrganizationsJacques Loeb published The Organism as a Whole: From a Physicochemical Viewpoint in 1916. Loeb's goal for the book was to refute the claim that…
LiteraturePublicationsGeorge Wells Beadle studied corn, fruit flies, and funguses in the US during the twentieth century. These studies helped Beadle earn the 1958 Nobel…
Beadle, George Wells, 1903-1989GeneticsGeorges Cuvier, baptized Georges Jean-Leopold Nicolas-Frederic Cuvier, was a professor of anatomy at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris…
AnatomyAnatomy, ComparativeNatural historyExtinction (Biology)Zoology