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Trisomy 18 (Edwards Syndrome)
By: Mark Zhang
| Published: Aug 16, 2011
John Hilton Edwards first described the symptoms of the genetic disorder known as Trisomy 18 - one of the most common forms of trisomy, which occurs…
TrisomyFetusCongenital DisordersHuman Development
Copper Intrauterine Device (IUD)
By: Victoria Higginbotham
| Published: Jul 05, 2018
The copper intrauterine device, or IUD, is a long-term, reversible contraceptive first introduced by Howard Tatum and Jamie Zipper in 1967. Health…
ContraceptivesCopper intrauterine contraceptivesDalkon Shield (Intrauterine contraceptive)Levonorgestrel intrauterine contraceptivesNorgestrel
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840)
By: Kate MacCord
| Published: Jan 22, 2014
In eighteenth century Germany, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach studied how individuals within a species vary, and to explain such variations, he proposed…
AnthropologyAnatomy, ComparativeVariation (Biology)EmbryosDevelopmental Biology
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1880-1958)
By: Ellen M. DuPont
| Published: Jul 10, 2008
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 15 October 1880 to Charlotte Carmichael Stopes, a suffragist, and Henry Stopes…
Peoplepublic healthethicsReproductionBiography
York v. Jones [Brief] (1989)
By: Brock Heathcotte
| Published: May 09, 2008
The court treated frozen embryos possessed by an in vitro fertilization clinic as property owned by the parents and held under a bailment contract by…
LawFertilization in VitroReproductionFertilization
Ectopic Pregnancy
By: Tian Zhu
| Published: May 06, 2010
Many difficulties can arise with a pregnancy even after the sperm successfully fertilizes the oocyte. A major problem occurs if the fertilized egg…
Ectopic PregnancyPregnancy, EctopicReproductionHuman Developmentmedicine
Thesis: Reviving the Dead, Ignoring the Living: Emotions, Ethics, and the Dream of De-Extinction
By: Risa Aria Schnebly
| Published: Nov 30, 2021
The goal of this research project was to examine how different messaging techniques, and especially expressions of emotionality surrounding the loss…
Extinction (Biology)Genetic EngineeringCommunication in scienceReproductive Healthconservation
World Health Organization Guidelines (Option A, B, and B+) for Antiretroviral Drugs to Treat Pregnant Women and Prevent HIV Infection in Infants
By: Sierra Hope Jones, Alexis Darby
| Published: Mar 01, 2021
To address the international Human Immunodeficiency Virus epidemic, the World Health Organization, or WHO, developed three drug treatment regimens…
HIV-positive personsHIV infectionsHIV-positive youthHIV-positive womenHIV-positive children
World Health Organization Guidelines (Option A, B, and B+) for Antiretroviral Drugs to Treat Pregnant Women and Prevent HIV Infection in Infants
By: Sierra Hope Jones, Alexis Darby
| Published: Mar 01, 2021
To address the international Human Immunodeficiency Virus epidemic, the World Health Organization, or WHO, developed three drug treatment regimens…
HIV-positive personsHIV infectionsHIV-positive youthHIV-positive womenHIV-positive children
Thesis: From Monsters to Medicine: A Historical Analysis of Changes in the Field of Teratology Over the Twentieth Century
By: Chanapa Tantibanchachai
| Published: Jul 25, 2021
This project focuses on the history of how teratogens, or agents which have the potential to cause birth defects, have been understood and tested for…
Teratogenicity testingHistory, 20th CenturyHistory, Twentieth Century