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Laparoscopy
By: Olivia Conley
| Published: Jun 19, 2010
Laparoscopy, a subfield of endoscopy, is a minimally invasive surgical procedure used to examine and operate on the internal organs of the abdomen…
TechnologyLaparoscopyReproduction
“Causes of Male Infertility: A 9-year Prospective Monocentre Study on 1737 Patients with Reduced Total Sperm Counts” (2016), by Margus Punab, Oliv Poolamets, Piia Paju, Vladimir Vihljajev, Kristjan Pomm, Ruth Ladva, Paul Korrovits, and Maris Laan
By: Logan Hunt
| Published: Sep 20, 2024
In December of 2016, Margus Punab and colleagues published “Causes of Male Infertility: A 9-year Prospective Monocentre Study on 1737 Patients with…
Sperm CountSperm NumberSperm TailSpermSperm Motility
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
Johns Hopkins Fertility Center
By: Aroob Khokhar
| Published: Jul 01, 2010
Johns Hopkins Medical Center, located in Baltimore, Maryland, opened in 1889; its associated medical school opened four years later. Today the…
OrganizationFertilityOrganizationsReproductionmedicine
“Is Neisseria gonorrhoeae Initiating a Future Era of Untreatable Gonorrhea?: Detailed Characterization of the First Strain with High-Level Resistance to Ceftriaxone” (2011), by Makoto Ohnishi, Daniel Golparian, Ken Shimuta, Takeshi Saika, et al.
By: Eboni E. Andersun
| Published: Aug 20, 2024
In July 2011, Makoto Ohnishi and colleagues published the article “Is Neisseria gonorrhoeae Initiating a Future Era of Untreatable Gonorrhea?:…
GonorrheaSexually Transmitted Diseases, BacterialSexually Transmitted DiseasesVenereal DiseasesSexually Transmitted Infections
Zhang Lizhu (1921- )
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: Aug 16, 2011
Zhang Lizhu is a Chinese gynecologist and researcher. For most of her career, she worked in the Peking Medical College Third Hospital, renamed in…
PeopleReproductionBiographyFertilization
"Sheep Cloned by Nuclear Transfer from a Cultured Cell Line" (1996), by Keith Campbell, Jim McWhir, William Ritchie, and Ian Wilmut
By: Zane Bartlett
| Published: Sep 19, 2014
In 1995 and 1996, researchers at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, cloned mammals for the first time. Keith Campbell, Jim McWhir, William…
CloningClone CellsCloning, MolecularCloning, OrganismExperiments
Hysterectomy
By: Kristin Kelley
| Published: Sep 02, 2010
A hysterectomy is the surgical removal of a woman's uterus. For many women, a hysterectomy comes as a solution to health problems as diverse as…
TechnologyHysterectomyReproductionmedicine
De ovi mammalium et hominis genesi (1827), by Karl Ernst von Baer
By: Federica Turriziani Colonna
| Published: Feb 09, 2017
De ovi mammalium et hominis genesi (On the Genesis of the Ovum of Mammals and of Men) is an 1827 pamphlet by Karl Ernst von Baer about the anatomical…
LiteratureBaer, Karl Ernst von, 1792-1876developmentAnatomy, ComparativeGerm Cells
Oregon State Board of Eugenics
By: Cera R. Lawrence
| Published: Apr 22, 2013
In 1917 the Oregon State Legislature, in Salem, Oregon, passed a bill titled, 'To Prevent Procreation of Certain Classes in Oregon.' Passage of the…
OrganizationEugenicsOregonInvoluntary SterilizationSterilization (Birth control)