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William Thornton Mustard (1914-1987)
By: Daniella Caudle
| Published: Feb 11, 2017
William Thornton Mustard was a surgeon in Canada during the twentieth century who developed surgical techniques to treat children who had congenital…
PoliomyelitisTransposition of Great VesselsHemolytic AnemiaBlood GroupsBlood Cells
Gattaca (1997)
By: Grace Kim
| Published: Feb 09, 2017
Gattaca is a 1997 science fiction film produced in the US that depicts a future society that uses reproductive technology and genetic engineering in…
LiteratureEugenicsGenetic EngineeringReproductive technologyBiotechnology
De ovi mammalium et hominis genesi (1827), by Karl Ernst von Baer
By: Federica Turriziani Colonna
| Published: Feb 09, 2017
De ovi mammalium et hominis genesi (On the Genesis of the Ovum of Mammals and of Men) is an 1827 pamphlet by Karl Ernst von Baer about the anatomical…
LiteratureBaer, Karl Ernst von, 1792-1876developmentAnatomy, ComparativeGerm Cells
Barbara McClintock's Transposon Experiments in Maize (1931–1951)
By: Federica Turriziani Colonna
| Published: Feb 09, 2017
Barbara McClintock conducted experiments on corn (Zea mays) in the United States in the mid-twentieth century to study the structure and function of…
TransposonsCornCytogeneticsChromosomesGenetics
Paternal Sperm Telomere Elongation and Its Impact on Offspring Fitness
By: Joanna Yang, Zane Bartlett
| Published: Feb 07, 2017
Telomeres are structures at the ends of DNA strands that get longer in the DNA of sperm cells as males age. That phenomenon is different for most…
TelomereAgingSpermSpermatozoaTelomerase
Jelly Fish and Green Fluorescent Protein
By: Anna Guerrero
| Published: Feb 06, 2017
The crystal jellyfish, Aequorea victoria, produces and emits light, called bioluminescence.
Green fluorescent proteinFluorescent polymersProteinsBiofluorescenceLuminescence
DNA and X and Y Chromosomes
By: Anna Guerrero
| Published: Feb 06, 2017
Y-chromosomes exist in the body cells of many kinds of male animals.
Y ChromosomeX chromosomeSex ChromosomesChromosomesSex Chromatin
Mitochondria - Image
By: Anna Guerrero
| Published: Feb 06, 2017
Mitochondria are organelles found in the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells. They are composed of an outer membrane and an inner membrane.
Cell organellesMitochondriaEukaryotic cellsMitochondrionOrganelles
Chloroplasts
By: Anna Guerrero
| Published: Feb 06, 2017
Chloroplasts are the organelles in plant and algal cells that conduct photosynthesis.
ChloroplastsPlastidsChloroplast membranesThylakoidsChlorophyll
Southern Gastric Brooding Frog-Image
By: Anna Guerrero
| Published: Feb 06, 2017
The Southern Gastric Brooding Frog (Rheobotrahcus silus) was a frog species that lived in Australia. It was declared extinct in 2002.
EggsFrogsAustraliaTadpolesAmphibians--Larvae