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Francesco Redi, son of Florentine physician Cecilia de' Ghinci and Gregorio Redi, was born in Arezzo, Italy, on 18 February 1626. He studied…
BiographyIn 1999, Joseph Bruner, Susan B. Drummond, Anna L. Meenan, and Ina May Gaskin published, “All-fours Maneuver for Reducing Shoulder Dystocia During…
LiteratureShoulder DystociaMidwiferyBirth InjuriesBirth injuries--ComplicationsDuring the mid-nineteenth century, Johann Gregor Mendel experimented with pea plants to develop a theory of inheritance. In 1843, while a monk in the…
GeneticsPeasLegumesPhenotypePlant breedingEndometriosis is a condition characterized by the growth of the endometrium, or the tissue that lines the uterus, outside of the uterus, and it is…
EndometriosisMenstruation--Social aspectsMenstruationEducation, MedicalMainstreaming, EducationIn the early twentieth century, scientists and agriculturalists collected plants in greenhouses, botanical gardens, and fields. Seed collection…
ContextGermplasm resources, PlantGermplasm resources, Plant--StorageAgrobiodiversityCropsIn a dispute over frozen embryos during a divorce case, the court decided the wife's fundamental right to not procreate mandated destruction of the…
LawFertilization in VitroReproductionFertilizationbioethicsHormone releasing intrauterine devices or hormonal IUDs are contraceptive devices placed in a woman’s uterus to prevent pregnancy by continuously…
TechnologyIntrauterine contraceptivesLevonorgestrel intrauterine contraceptivesCopper intrauterine contraceptivesProducts liability--Contraceptive drug implantsIn 2018, researchers Elie Nkwabong, Romuald Meboulou Nguel, Nelly Kamgaing, and Anne Sylvie Keddi Jippe published, “Knowledge, Attitudes, and…
LiteratureHIV-positive womenHIV-positive childrenHIV (Viruses)HIV infectionsMuriel Wheldale Onslow studied flowers in England with genetic and biochemical techniques in the early twentieth century. Working with geneticist…
PeopleHeredityBiochemistryEpistasis (Genetics)GeneticsIn the 1990s, Ian Wilmut, Jim McWhir, and Keith Campbell performed experiments while working at the Roslin Institute in Roslin, Scotland. Wilmut,…
CloningMolecular CloningClone CellsCampbell, Keith, 1954-2012Roslin Institute