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Ethics of Designer Babies
By: Sarah Ly
| Published: Mar 31, 2011
A designer baby is a baby genetically engineered in vitro for specially selected traits, which can vary from lowered disease-risk to gender selection…
ethicsReproductionReproductive RightsGenetic EngineeringEugenics
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard (1942- )
By: May Catherine, Jack Resnik
| Published: Feb 16, 2012
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard studied how genes control embryonic development in flies and in fish in Europe during the twentieth and twenty-first…
DrosophilaEmbryologyGenesMorphogenesisRNA polymerases
Dennis Lo (1963- )
By: Alexis Abboud
| Published: Nov 04, 2014
Dennis Lo, also called Yuk Ming Dennis Lo, is a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong, China. In 1997, Lo discovered fetal…
genetic testingHuman chromosome abnormalities--DiagnosisPrenatal DiagnosisAmniocentesisChorionic Villus Sampling
Francis Sellers Collins (1950- )
By: Tito Carvalho
| Published: Apr 10, 2014
Francis Sellers Collins helped lead the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium, which helped describe the DNA sequence of the human genome…
Human Genome ProjectNucleotide sequenceSequence Analysis, DNAGenome
Shoukhrat Mitalipov and Masahito Tachibana's Mitochondrial Gene Replacement Therapy Technique
By: Giselle Lee
| Published: Sep 06, 2017
In 2009, Shoukhrat Mitalipov, Masahito Tachibana, and their team of researchers developed the technology of mitochondrial gene replacement therapy to…
TechnologymonkeysGurdon, J. B. (John Bertrand)Briggs, Robert, -1983King, Thomas J. (Thomas Joseph), 1921-2000
San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research
By: Karen Love
| Published: Jun 12, 2017
The San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research (SDZICR) in San Diego, California, is a research organization that works to generate, use, and…
OrganizationpreservationGeneticsEndangered SpeciesDNA
William Bateson (1861-1926)
By: Samantha Hauserman
| Published: Jan 28, 2014
At the turn of the twentieth century, William Bateson studied organismal variation and heredity of traits within the framework of evolutionary theory…
GeneticsHeredityMendel, Gregor, 1822-1884EvolutionEmbryology
Calvin Blackman Bridges (1889-1938)
By: Kevin Gleason
| Published: May 19, 2017
Calvin Blackman Bridges studied chromosomes and heredity in the US throughout the early twentieth century. Bridges performed research with Thomas…
DrosophilaHeredityInheritance of acquired charactersColumbia University--Graduate studentsMutation
Charles Robert Cantor (1942- )
By: Alexis Abboud
| Published: Jun 11, 2015
Charles Robert Cantor helped sequence the human genome, and he developed methods to non-invasively determine the genes in human fetuses. Cantor…
Human Genome ProjectDNAfetal developmentFetusEmbryos
John D. Gearhart
By: Ke Wu
| Published: Jan 19, 2011
John D. Gearhart is a renowned American developmental geneticist best known for leading the Johns Hopkins University research team that first…
PeopleStem CellsGeneticsBiography