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Gastrulation in Xenopus
By: Inbar Maayan
| Published: Mar 10, 2011
The process of gastrulation allows for the formation of the germ layers in metazoan embryos, and is generally achieved through a series of complex…
Haeckel, Ernst, 1834-1919GastrulationAmphibiansFrogs
“Diethylstilbestrol in the Prevention and Treatment of Complications of Pregnancy” (1948), by Olive Watkins Smith
By: Alexis Abboud
| Published: Feb 21, 2017
In 1948, Olive Watkins Smith published 'Diethylstilbestrol in the Prevention and Treatment of Complications of Pregnancy' in the American Journal…
LiteraturePregnancyEndocrine disrupting chemicalsHormonesObstetrics
Preformationism in the Enlightenment
By: Cera R. Lawrence
| Published: Aug 11, 2008
Preformationism was a theory of embryological development used in the late seventeenth through the late eighteenth centuries. This theory held that…
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Dissertation: A Fetus By Any Other Name: How Words Shaped the Fetal Personhood Movement in US Courts and Society (1884-1973)
By: Carolina Abboud
| Published: Mar 24, 2021
The 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade was a significant event in the story of fetal personhood—the story of whether embryos and fetuses are legal…
Fetus--Legal status, laws, etc.--United StatesFetus--Research--Law and legislationEmbryoAbortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortion--Law and legislation
Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You (2015), by the British Broadcasting Corporation and The Open University
By: Jessica Cartwright
| Published: Nov 21, 2017
In 2015, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) partnered with The Open University to produce the three-part documentary series, Countdown to…
LiteratureConceptionGestationReproductionPhysiology
Barack Obama Executive Order 13505, November 2008
By: Aroob Khokhar
| Published: Jun 17, 2010
On 20 November 2009 Democrat Barack Obama replaced Republican George W. Bush as president of the United States. Obama soon initiated changes to Bush'…
LawStem Cells
Images of Embryos in Life Magazine in the 1950s
By: Olivia Conley
| Published: Jun 30, 2010
Embryonic images displayed in Life magazine during the mid-twentieth century serve as a representation of technological advances and the growing…
PublicationsReproductionChicksHuman DevelopmentFetus
Gastrulation in Gallus gallus (Domestic Chicken)
By: Corinne DeRuiter, Maria Doty
| Published: Jun 21, 2011
Gastrulation is an early stage in embryo development in which the blastula reorganizes into three germ layers: the ectoderm, the mesoderm, and the…
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Charles Bonnet (1720-1793)
By: Cera R. Lawrence
| Published: Jun 10, 2009
Charles Bonnet was a naturalist and philosopher in the mid eighteenth century. His most important contribution to embryology was the discovery of…
PeopleParthenogenesisBiography
A Child Is Born (1965), by Lennart Nilsson
By: Mark Zhang
| Published: Sep 17, 2013
Dell Publishing in New York City, New York, published Lennart Nilsson's A Child Is Born in 1966. The book was a translation of the Swedish version…
LiteraturedevelopmentPregnancyfetal developmentFetal Growth