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Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research: Executive Summary was published in September 1999 by The US National Bioethics Advisory Commission in…
LiteraturebioethicsStem cells--ResearchEmbryonic Stem CellsStem CellsAlbert William Liley advanced the science of fetal physiology and the techniques of life-saving in utero blood transfusions for fetuses with Rh…
ReproductionBiographyFetusBy 2011, researchers in the US had established that non-invasive blood tests can accurately determine the gender of a human fetus as early as seven…
ContextDiagnostic sex determinationSex PreselectionFetusSex Determination AnalysisIntroduced by Conrad Hal Waddington in 1942, the concept of epigenetics gave scientists a new paradigm of thought concerning embryonic development,…
EpigenomicsEpigeneticsOn 30 June 1980, in a five to four decision, the US Supreme Court ruled in the Case Harris v. McRae that the Hyde Amendment of 1976 did not violate…
LawContraceptionUnited States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare, and Related Agencies AppropriationsMedicaidAbortion--Law and legislation--United StatesBenjamin Harrison Willier is considered one of the most versatile embryologists to have ever practiced in the US. His research spanned most of the…
TransplantationBiographyHenrietta Lacks, born Loretta Pleasant, had terminal cervical cancer in 1951, and was diagnosed at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore,…
PeopleAfrican American History MonthWomen in medicine--HistoryMedicine--United States--HistorybioethicsIn 2006, the article “HPV in the Etiology of Human Cancer,” hereafter “HPV and Etiology,” by Nubia Muñoz, Xavier Castellsagué, Amy Berrington de…
LiteraturePapillomavirusesCervix uteri--CancerVaccine mandatesMouth--CancerIn the case Whitner v. South Carolina in 1997, the South Carolina State Supreme Court defined the concept of a child to include viable fetuses. This…
LawEmbryosReproductive RightsPregnancyAbortionThe development of the obstetric ultrasound has allowed physicians and embryologists to obtain a clear picture of the developing human embryo and…
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