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Diana W. Bianchi
By: Alexis Abboud
| Published: Jun 23, 2017
Diana W. Bianchi studied the medical treatment of premature and newborn infants in the US during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Bianchi…
Prenatal DiagnosisGenetics
Texas Medical Providers Performing Abortion Services v. Lakey (2012)
By: Reem Gerais
| Published: Jun 23, 2017
In the 2012 case Texas Medical Providers Performing Abortion Services v. David Lakey, a US appeals court ruled as constitutional a Texas law that…
LawAbortionAbortion servicesAbortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortion--Law and legislation
State v. New Times, INC (1973)
By: Claudia Nunez-Eddy
| Published: Jun 23, 2017
In the 1973 case State v. New Times, INC, the Arizona Court of Appeals in Phoenix, Arizona, ruled that Arizona Revised Statutes 13-211, 13-212, and…
LawContraceptionBirth control clinicsPlanned Parenthood Federation of AmericaAbortion
Pearl Mao Tang (1922– )
By: Malladi Lakshmeeramya
| Published: Jun 23, 2017
A licensed obstetrician and gynecologist, Pearl Tang worked to improve the health of women and children in Maricopa County, Arizona, during the…
Family planning servicesContraceptionInfants--MortalitySan Carlos Indian Reservation (Ariz.)Arizona
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Visualize Fetal Abnormalities
By: Dasia Garcia
| Published: Jun 21, 2017
Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a technique to create a three-dimensional image of a fetus. Doctors often use MRIs to image a fetuses…
TechnologyMagnetic resonance imagingNuclear Magnetic ResonanceFetusDiagnostic ultrasonic imaging
Cornelia Isabella Bargmann (1961- )
By: Dasia Garcia
| Published: Jun 19, 2017
Cornelia Isabella Bargmann studied the relationship between genes, neural circuits, and behavior in the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans…
Drosophila melanogasterNeural circuitryNeurobiologyHER-2 geneHER-2 protein
The Formation of Reticular Theory
By: Isra Mishqat
| Published: Jun 19, 2017
In the nineteenth century, reticular theory aimed to describe the properties of neurons, the specialized cells which make up the nervous system, but…
Nerve TissueNervous SystemNobel Prize winnersBrainNeurons
"Control of Corneal Differentiation by Extracellular Materials" (1974), by Stephen Meier and Elizabeth D. Hay
By: Kevin Gleason
| Published: Jun 19, 2017
In 1974, Elizabeth Dexter Hay and Stephen Meier in the US conducted an experiment that demonstrated that the extracellular matrix, the mesh-like…
Extracellular matrixCollagenCorneaEpitheliumEmbryos
Leon Chesley (1908-2000)
By: Sarah Patel
| Published: Jun 19, 2017
Leon Chesley studied hypertension, or high blood pressure, in pregnant women during the mid-twentieth century. Chesley studied preeclampsia and…
PreeclampsiaEclampsiaHypertensionObstetricsPregnancy
Sidney Q. Cohlan (1915-1999)
By: Bianca Zietal, Chanapa Tantibanchachai
| Published: Jun 18, 2017
Sidney Q. Cohlan studied birth defects in the US during the twentieth century. Cohlan helped to discover that if a pregnant woman ate too much…
Abnormalities, HumanRetinoidsVitamin AHypervitaminosisTetracycline