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The Boys from Brazil (1978)
By: Grace Kim
| Published: Jun 09, 2017
The Boys from Brazil is a science fiction film based on the novel of the same name by Ira Levin about an underground neo-Nazi society in South…
LiteratureEugenicsGenetic EngineeringReproductive technologyBiotechnology
Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories (1980)
By: Alexis Abboud
| Published: Jun 08, 2017
Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories was a 1980 California case that established the doctrine of market share liability for personal injury cases. For such…
LawDiethylstilbestrolMiscarriagePregnancy--ComplicationsPregnancy
Apoptosis in Embryonic Development
By: Zane Bartlett
| Published: Jun 08, 2017
Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is a mechanism in embryonic development that occurs naturally in organisms. Apoptosis is a different process…
ApoptosisGenetic regulationCaenorhabditis elegansCellsGerm Cells
Percivall Pott (1714-1788)
By: Carolina Abboud
| Published: May 31, 2017
Percivall Pott was a physician in England during the eighteenth century who identified soot as the cause of chimney sweeps' scrotal cancer, later…
Pott, Percivall, 1714-1788CancerChimney sweepsPott Puffy TumorCarcinoma, Squamous Cell
Bernard Sachs (1858-1944)
By: Tiffany Nardi
| Published: May 31, 2017
Bernard Sachs studied nervous system disorders in children in the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the late 1880s,…
Tay-Sachs DiseaseAmaurotic Familial IdiocyGangliosidosesNervous system--DegenerationNeurodegenerative Disorders
The National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC)
By: Cassidy Possehl
| Published: May 31, 2017
Audrey Heimler and colleagues founded the National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC) in 1979 in New Hyde Park in New York, New York. Her stated…
OrganizationGenetic counselorsGenetic CounselingFragile X SyndromeOrganizations
William Smellie (1697–1763)
By: Yvette Tran
| Published: May 30, 2017
William Smellie helped to incorporate scientific medicine into the process of childbirth in eighteenth century Britain. As a male physician…
MidwivesObstetrical ForcepsChildbirthObstetricsLabor (Obstetrics)
Sonja Vernes, et al.'s Experiments On the Gene Networks Affected by the Foxp2 Protein (2011)
By: Kat Fowler
| Published: May 30, 2017
In 2011, Sonja Vernes and Simon Fisher performed a series of experiments to determine which developmental processes are controlled by the mouse…
Gene regulatory networksLanguageLanguage AcquisitionNeuronsMotor ability
Tomorrow's Children (1934)
By: Grace Kim
| Published: May 30, 2017
Tomorrow's Children is a film that tells the story of Alice Mason, a young woman whom the US government forcibly sterilizes because she comes from a…
LiteratureEugenicsInvoluntary SterilizationCompulsory SterilizationCensorship
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (1929–1970)
By: Yvette Tran
| Published: May 29, 2017
Starting in 1929, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists was a professional association of physicians in the UK that aimed to improve…
OrganizationWomen's health servicesGynecologyObstetricsContraception