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US Regulatory Response to Thalidomide (1950-2000)
By: Chanapa Tantibanchachai
| Published: Apr 01, 2014
Thalidomide, a drug capable of causing fetal abnormalities (teratogen), has caused greater than ten thousand birth defects worldwide since its…
ContextThalidomideThalidomide--Side effectsTeratogenicity testingMultiple Myeloma
“The Construction of Lay Expertise: AIDS Activism and the Forging of Credibility in the Reform of Clinical Trials” (1995), by Steven Epstein
By: Jarrett L. Joubert
| Published: Jun 24, 2024
On 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 InfectionsHIV
Peter Mazur (1928–2015)
By: Risa Aria Schnebly
| Published: Oct 13, 2020
Peter 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
Jan Evangelista Purkyne (1787-1869)
By: Minai Mandana
| Published: Jun 05, 2014
Jan Evangelista Purkyne, also called Johannes or Johann Evangelist Purkinje, studied cells in the cerebellum, fibers of the heart, subjective visual…
Purkinje CellsPurkinje FibersOocytes
Stump v. Sparkman (1978)
By: Nathaniel Ross
| Published: Aug 23, 2022
On March 28, 1978, in Stump v. Sparkman, hereafter Stump, the United States Supreme Court held, in a five-to-three decision, that judges have…
LawSterilizationSterilization of womenInvoluntary SterilizationJudicial immunity
Skinner v. Oklahoma (1942)
By: Rachel Gur-Arie
| Published: Aug 27, 2016
In 1942, the United States Supreme Court Case of Skinner v. Oklahoma ruled that states could not legally sterilize those inmates of prisons deemed…
LawCompulsory SterilizationSupreme Court DecisionsEugenicsInvoluntary Sterilization
The Informed Consent Project
By: Richa Venkatraman
| Published: Jun 01, 2021
In 2013, Cynthia Daniels and a team of researchers at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, founded the Informed Consent Project. Daniels…
OrganizationAbortionAbortion, InducedInduced AbortionInformed Consent
"Veterans and Agent Orange Update 1996: Summary and Research Highlights" by the US National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine
By: Cecilia Chou
| Published: Mar 28, 2017
In March 1996, the National Academy of Sciences of the United States released 'Veterans and Agent Orange Update 1996: Summary and Research Highlights…
LiteratureAgent OrangeHerbicidesSpina BifidaVeterans Administration
Mitochondria
By: Dorothy R. Haskett
| Published: Jul 05, 2014
All cells that have a nucleus, including plant, animal, fungal cells, and most single-celled protists, also have mitochondria. Mitochondria are…
CellsCell organellesMitochondriaPlant mitochondriaEndosymbiosis
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723)
By: Kristin Bolfert
| Published: Nov 01, 2007
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek was born in Delft, the Netherlands, on 24 October 1632 to Margriet Jacobsdochter van den Berch and Philips Thooniszoon, both…
BiographyMicroscopy