Filter my results
Search
Displaying 31 - 40 of 1079
Syncytial Theory
By: Adam R. Navis
| Published: Oct 30, 2007
The syncytial theory of neural development was proposed by Victor Hensen in 1864 to explain the growth and differentiation of the nervous system.…
Hensen, Victor, 1835-1924Nervous SystemNeurons
“Fetal Programming and Adult Health” (2001), by Kevin M. Godfrey and David J.P. Barker
By: Carrie Keller
| Published: Feb 01, 2021
In 2001, Kevin M. Godfrey and David J.P. Barker published the article “Fetal Programming and Adult Health” in Public Health Nutrition, where they…
LiteraturePregnancy--ComplicationsFetal heart--AbnormalitiesMaternal-Fetal ExchangeMetabolism in pregnancy
"A Series of Normal Stages in the Development of the Chick Embryo" (1951), by Viktor Hamburger and Howard L. Hamilton
By: Adam R. Navis
| Published: Oct 30, 2007
The developmental stages of the chick embryo were examined by Viktor Hamburger and Howard L. Hamilton in "A Series of Normal Stages in the…
Chick EmbryoExperimentsChicks
Fetal Programming
By: Carrie Keller
| Published: Nov 03, 2020
Fetal programming, or prenatal programming, is a concept that suggests certain events occurring during critical points of pregnancy may cause…
Diabetes in pregnancyMaternal-Fetal ExchangeMetabolism in pregnancyMaternal-Fetal MedicineMothers--Nutrition
The Cell in Development and Inheritance (1900), by Edmund Beecher Wilson
By: Jane Maienschein, Abhinav Mishra
| Published: Jun 18, 2015
The Cell in Development and Inheritance, by Edmund Beecher Wilson, provided a textbook introduction to cell biology for generations of biologists in…
LiteratureCell organellesMitosisMeiosisCell Proliferation
"Maternal Thyroid Deficiency During Pregnancy and Subsequent Neuropsychological Development of the Child" (1999), by James E. Haddow et al.
By: Jennifer R. Craer
| Published: Jul 11, 2014
From 1987 to the late 1990s, James Haddow and his team of researchers at the Foundation for Blood Research in Scarborough, Maine, studied children…
HypothyroidismCongenital HypothyroidismThyroid HormonesThyroid GlandThyrotropin
"The Development of the Pronephros during the Embryonic and Early Larval Life of the Catfish
(Ictalurus punctatus)" (1932), by Rachel L. Carson
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Feb 28, 2014
Rachel L. Carson studied biology at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland and graduated in 1933 with an MA upon the completion of her thesis, The…
LiteratureDevelopmental BiologyChannel CatfishEmbryosMorphogenesis
Karl Ernst von Baer's Laws of Embryology
By: M. Elizabeth Barnes
| Published: Apr 15, 2014
In 1828, while working at the University of Konigsberg in Konigsberg, Germany Karl Ernst von Baer proposed four laws of animal development, which…
Baer, Karl Ernst von, 1792-1876EmbryologyAnatomy, Comparative
"Formation of Genetically Mosaic Mouse Embryos and Early Development of Lethal (t12/t12)-Normal Mosaics" (1964), by Beatrice Mintz
By: Adam R. Navis
| Published: Jan 13, 2009
The paper "Formation of Genetically Mosaic Mouse Embryos and Early Development of Lethal (t12/t12)-Normal Mosaics," by Beatrice Mintz, describes a…
Mintz, BeatriceExperimentsMice
Neural Crest
By: M. Elizabeth Barnes
| Published: Sep 15, 2014
Early in the process of development, vertebrate embryos develop a fold on the neural plate where the neural and epidermal ectoderms meet, called the…
VertebratesdevelopmentGerm LayersNeural CrestNeural Crest Cells