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John Hilton Edwards first described the symptoms of the genetic disorder known as Trisomy 18 - one of the most common forms of trisomy, which occurs…
TrisomyFetusCongenital DisordersHuman DevelopmentThe Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology, commonly called the Warnock Report after the chair of the committee…
LiteratureFertilityFertilization in vitro, HumanReproductive technologyEmbryo transplantationMeiosis, the process by which sexually-reproducing organisms generate gametes (sex cells), is an essential precondition for the normal formation of…
MeiosisReproductionHuman DevelopmentIn 2015, Junjiu Huang and his colleagues reported their attempt to enable CRISPR/cas 9-mediated gene editing in nonviable human zygotes for the first…
LiteratureDoudna, Jennifer A.Charpentier, Emmanuelle, 1968-Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic RepeatsCRISPR-Cas SystemsDavid Michael Rorvik is a science journalist who publicized advancements in the field of reproductive medicine during the late twentieth century.…
Sex PreselectionScience JournalismFamily PlanningParenthoodFertilizationThe Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering, hereafter referred to as The Case against Perfection, written by Michael J.…
LiteratureGenetic EngineeringPublicationsethicsbioethicsThe term homunculus is Latin for "little man." It is used in neurology today to describe the map in the brain of sensory neurons in each part of the…
Eugen Steinach researched sex hormones and their effects on mammals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Europe. He experimented…
Hormones, SexGenerative organsGenital OrgansGonadal Steroid HormonesTesticular HormonesOrchiopexy, also known as orchidopexy, is a surgical technique that can correct cryptorchidism and was successfully performed for one of the first…
TechnologyTestis--CancerTestisTestis--DiseasesTestis--SurgeryJohns Hopkins Medical Center, located in Baltimore, Maryland, opened in 1889; its associated medical school opened four years later. Today the…
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