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Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy
By: Federica Turriziani Colonna
| Published: Dec 22, 2014
The Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (Anton Dohrn Zoological Station) is a public research institute focusing on biology and biodiversity. Hereafter…
OrganizationStazione zoologica di NapoliDevelopmental BiologyZoologyEmbryology
Oral Glucose Tolerance Test for Gestational Diabetes
By: Alison Lane
| Published: Dec 09, 2020
In the twentieth century, researchers developed the oral glucose tolerance test, or OGTT, as a method to diagnose different types of diabetes, a…
TechnologyDiagnosisDiabetes--DiagnosisGlucose tolerance testsBlood Glucose
Ian Hector Frazer (1953– )
By: Alexis Darby
| Published: Sep 02, 2020
Ian Hector Frazer studied the human immune system and vaccines in Brisbane, Australia, and helped invent and patent the scientific process and…
PeopleHIV infectionsHIV-positive personsHIV (Viruses)Vaccines industry
Ernest Everett Just (1883-1941)
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 16, 2010
Ernest Everett Just was an early twentieth century American experimental embryologist involved in research at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)…
FertilizationBiographyInvertebrates
Karl Landsteiner (1868-1943)
By: Corey Harbison
| Published: Feb 17, 2017
Karl Landsteiner studied blood types in Europe and in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Landsteiner won the…
Rh factorRhesus MonkeyBlood GroupsBlood CellsBlood Transfusions
Menopause
By: Megha Pillai
| Published: Aug 26, 2024
Menopause is defined as the point in time exactly twelve months after a female has had her last menstrual period, or shedding of the lining of the…
MenopausePremenopausepostmenopauseEstrogen Replacement TherapyHormone Replacement Therapy, Post-Menopausal
Ernest John Christopher Polge (1926-2006)
By: Bailey Renee
| Published: Jan 30, 2018
Twentieth-century researcher Ernest John Christopher Polge studied the reproductive processes of livestock and determined a method to successfully…
Smith, Audrey U.Parkes, A. S. (Alan Sterling), 1900-1990National Institute for Medical Research (Great Britain)Medical Research Council (Great Britain)Glycerin
Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome (OHSS) Caused by Fertility Treatment
By: Alison Lane
| Published: Oct 20, 2020
Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, abbreviated OHSS, is an atypical reaction that women may experience in response to excessive hormones, and often…
Fertility clinicsFertility, HumanFertilization in vitro, HumanOvulationOvulation--Induction
The Guthrie Test for Early Diagnosis of Phenylketonuria
By: Meilin Zhu
| Published: Mar 30, 2017
The Guthrie test, also called the PKU test, is a diagnostic tool to test infants for phenylketonuria a few days after birth. To administer the…
TechnologyGuthrie, Robert, 1916-1995PhenylketonuriaMental RetardationAmino acids--Metabolism--Disorders
August Friedrich Leopold Weismann (1834-1914)
By: Yawen Zou
| Published: May 23, 2014
August Friedrich Leopold Weismann studied how the traits of organisms developed and evolved in a variety of organisms, mostly insects and aquatic…
Germ CellsHeredity