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The Malthusian League (1877–1927)
By: Claudia Nunez-Eddy
| Published: Apr 27, 2017
The Malthusian League, founded in London, England, in 1877 promoted the use of contraception to limit family size. Activists Charles Bradlaugh and…
OrganizationEugenicsContraceptionBirth ControlReproductive Rights
Charles Raymond Greene (1901–1982)
By: Bianca E. Zietal
| Published: Apr 27, 2017
Charles Raymond Greene studied hormones and the effects of environmental conditions such as high-altitude on physiology in the twentieth century in…
Premenstrual syndromeFrostbiteThyroid HormonesEndocrinologyProgesterone
Serial Cultivation of Human Diploid Cells in the Lab (1958–1961) by Leonard Hayflick and Paul S. Moorhead
By: Christian H. Ross
| Published: Apr 27, 2017
From 1958 to 1961, Leonard Hayflick and Paul Moorhead in the US developed a way in the laboratory to cultivate strains of human cells with complete…
MMR VaccineRubellaRubella--VaccinationFetal tissuesOncogenic Viruses
Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy (1978), by Leon Chesley
By: Sarah Patel
| Published: Apr 27, 2017
Leon Chesley published Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy in 1978 to outline major and common complications that occur during pregnancy and manifest…
LiteratureChesley, Leon C., 1908-2000HypertensionPreeclampsiaDownstate Medical Center (N.Y.)
Simon Edward Fisher (1970-)
By: Kat Fowler
| Published: Apr 27, 2017
Simon Edward Fisher studied the genes that control speech and language in England and the Netherlands in the late twentieth and early twenty-first…
GeneticsWellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics (Oxford, England)Language AcquisitionTranscription factorsForkhead Transcription Factors
Arthur William Galston (1920–2008)
By: Cecilia Chou
| Published: Apr 27, 2017
Arthur W. Galston studied plant hormones in the United States during the late-twentieth century. His dissertation on the flowering process of soybean…
Agent OrangeSoybeanTetrachlorodibenzodioxinHerbicidesDefoliants
Treatment of Anemia during Pregnancy (1931), by Lucy Wills
By: Lauren Lynch
| Published: Apr 20, 2017
In 1931, physician Lucy Wills conducted a study of nutritional deficiencies that caused anemia in pregnant women in Bombay, India, later renamed…
AnemiaPernicious AnemiaFolic AcidAnemia in pregnancyErythrocytes
An Atlas of Fertilization and Karyokinesis of the Ovum (1895), by Edmund Beecher Wilson
By: Kevin M. Gleason
| Published: Apr 20, 2017
Edmund Beecher Wilson in the US published An Atlas of Fertilization and Karyokinesis of the Ovum (hereafter called An Atlas) in 1895. The book…
LiteratureKaryokinesisFertilization (Biology)ConceptionDevelopmental Biology
Adib Jatene (1929–2014)
By: Daniella Caudle
| Published: Apr 20, 2017
Adib Jatene in Brazil was the first surgeon to successfully perform the arterial switch operation in 1975. The operation corrected a heart condition…
Heart--SurgeryTransposition of Great VesselsCongenital Heart DiseaseAorta--AbnormalitiesPulmonary artery--Abnormalities
"Testing the Kin Selection Theory: Who Controls the Investments?" from The Ants (1990), by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson
By: Kelle Dhein
| Published: Apr 18, 2017
In “Testing the Kin Selection Theory: Who Controls the Investments?” Bert Hölldobler and Edward Osborne Wilson discussed the predictive power of kin…
LiteratureAntsAnimal behaviorReproductionNatural selection