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Telomeres are structures at the ends of DNA strands that get longer in the DNA of sperm cells as males age. That phenomenon is different for most…
TelomereAgingSpermSpermatozoaTelomeraseAnne Laura Dorinthea McLaren was a developmental biologist known for her work with embryology in the twentieth century. McLaren was the first…
PeopleFertilizationBiographyMiceIn 1912, Henry Herbert Goddard published The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness, hereafter The Kallikak Family, in which…
LiteratureIntellectual DisabilityMental DeficiencyEugenicsEugenics--United States--HistoryHenry Herbert Goddard was a psychologist who conducted research on intelligence and mental deficiency at the Vineland Training School for Feeble-…
Intellectual DisabilityMental DeficiencyEugenicsEugenics--United States--HistoryHeredityTheodora Colborn studied how chemicals affect organisms as they develop and reproduce during the twentieth and twenty first centuries in the US. By…
endocrine disruptorsEndocrine disrupting chemicalsPollutantsEndocrine toxicologyEndocrine SystemOn 9 July 1990, in Moore v. Regents of the University of California, the Supreme Court of California ruled in a four-to-three decision that…
LawMedical laws and legislationLegal MedicineRight of propertyRight of property--United States--HistoryEnvironment and Birth Defects by James Graves Wilson in the US was published in 1973. The book summarized information on the causes of malformations…
LiteratureBirth DefectsAbnormalities, HumanTeratogensTeratologyThalidomide, a drug capable of causing fetal abnormalities (teratogen), has caused greater than ten thousand birth defects worldwide since its…
ContextThalidomideThalidomide--Side effectsTeratogenicity testingMultiple MyelomaOn 1 October 1995, Steven Epstein published “The Construction of Lay Expertise: AIDS Activism and the Forging of Credibility in the Reform of…
HIV SeropositivityAcquired Immunodeficiency SyndromePneumocystis cariniiPneumocystis InfectionsHIVPeter Mazur was a researcher in the US who developed new ways of preserving biological material by freezing it, a process called cryopreservation. If…
Religion and science--HistoryMolecular weightsCryobiologyFreezingFrozen liquids