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Historically the exact age of human embryo specimens has long perplexed embryologists. With the menstrual history of the mother often unknown or not…
Mall, Franklin P. (Franklin Paine), 1862-1917Human DevelopmentCarnegie Institution of WashingtonJacques Loeb experimented on embryos in Europe and the United States at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Among…
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LiteratureAbortionAbortion, InducedInduced AbortionInformed ConsentIn 2016, physician researchers Agustin Conde-Agudelo and José Díaz-Rossello published “Kangaroo Mother Care to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality in Low…
LiteratureBirth weight, LowInfant CareBreastfeedingMother and infantTransposition of the great arteries or TGA is a potentially fatal congenital heart malformation where the pulmonary artery and the aorta are switched…
Transposition of Great VesselsMustard, William T., 1914-1987Congenital Heart DiseaseSenning OperationHermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex, by historian of science Alice Domurat Dreger, was published in 1998 by Harvard University Press. In…
LiteratureIntersex peopleGonads--DiseasesDisorders of Sex DevelopmentSexSt. George Jackson Mivart studied animals and worked in England during the nineteenth century. He also proposed a theory of organismal development…
EvolutionAlan Mathison Turing was a British mathematician and computer scientist who lived in the early twentieth century. Among important contributions in…
PeopleMorphogenesisBiographyModelsEdwin Grant Conklin was born in Waldo, Ohio, on 24 November 1863 to parents Nancy Maria Hull and Dr. Abram V. Conklin. Conklin's family was very…
PeopleCell LineageBiographyCharles Otis Whitman was an extremely curious and driven researcher who was not content to limit himself to one field of expertise. Among the fields…
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