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Alexis Carrel, the prominent French surgeon, biologist, and 1912 Nobel Prize laureate for Physiology or Medicine, was one of the pioneers in…
TechnologyCarrel, Alexis, 1873-1944Tissue Culture TechniquesTissue cultureMenstrual tampons are feminine hygiene devices, usually made of absorbent cotton, that are temporarily inserted into the vagina for absorbing a woman…
TechnologyTamponsTampons--ComplicationsMenstruationMenstrual CycleJames Alexander Thomson, affectionately known as Jamie Thomson, is an American developmental biologist whose pioneering work in isolating and…
PeopleThomson, James A., Dr.Stem CellsBiographyIn 1975, the United States Congress passed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, referred to as the IDEA, which codified the right of all…
LawDisability EvaluationDisability awarenessIntellectual DisabilityPeople with mental disabilitiesMy Father, My Son is a dual autobiography by father and son Elmo Russell Zumwalt Jr. and Elmo Russell Zumwalt III published by Macmillan Publishing…
LiteratureAgent OrangeHerbicidesSpina BifidaOperation Ranch Hand, 1962-1971In 2015, Junjiu Huang and his colleagues reported their attempt to enable CRISPR/cas 9-mediated gene editing in nonviable human zygotes for the first…
LiteratureDoudna, Jennifer A.Charpentier, Emmanuelle, 1968-Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic RepeatsCRISPR-Cas SystemsHomeobox genes are a cluster of regulatory genes that are spatially and temporally expressed during early embryological development. They are…
Homeobox genesGenes, HomeoboxGeneticsWalter Jakob Gehring discovered the homeobox, a DNA segment found in a specific cluster of genes that determine the body plan of animals, plants, and…
Homeobox genesDrosophilaGeneticsGenesGenes, HomeoboxThe term Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) was first published in 1973 in an article published in the British medical journal The Lancet. In that article…
fetal alcohol syndromeReproductionHuman DevelopmentIn 1920, Joseph Bolivar DeLee published the article, “The Prophylactic Forceps Operation,” in which he describes how physicians can manually remove a…
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