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Acid Dissolution of Fossil Dinosaur Eggs
By: Madison Paige
| Published: Feb 11, 2017
Acid dissolution is a technique of removing a fossil from the surrounding rock matrix in which it is encased by dissolving that matrix with acid.…
TechnologypaleontologyPaleontological excavationsVertebrates, FossilEggs, Fossil
In Vitro Fertilization
By: Tian Zhu
| Published: Jul 22, 2009
In vitro fertilization (IVF) is an assisted reproductive technology (ART) initially introduced by Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards in the 1970s to…
TechnologyFertilization in VitroReproductionFertilityFertilization
David Michael Rorvik (1944–)
By: Alysse Blight
| Published: Jul 05, 2018
David Michael Rorvik is a science journalist who publicized advancements in the field of reproductive medicine during the late twentieth century.…
Sex PreselectionScience JournalismFamily PlanningParenthoodFertilization
The Miracle of Life (1983), by NOVA
By: Inbar Maayan
| Published: Nov 19, 2010
The most-watched NOVA documentary ever made and a revolution in the understanding of human development, The Miracle of Life (abbreviated Life)…
LiteratureReproductionHuman Development
Ectopic Pregnancy
By: Tian Zhu
| Published: May 06, 2010
Many difficulties can arise with a pregnancy even after the sperm successfully fertilizes the oocyte. A major problem occurs if the fertilized egg…
Ectopic PregnancyPregnancy, EctopicReproductionHuman Developmentmedicine
Robert Lanza (1956- )
By: Christopher Rojas
| Published: Feb 11, 2015
During the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Robert Paul Lanza studied embryonic stem cells, tissues, and endangered species as chief scientific…
Advanced Cell Technology (Firm)BantengCloningEmbryosEmbryonic Stem Cells
Bernard Nathanson (1926-2011)
By: Mark Zhang
| Published: Apr 22, 2013
Bernard Nathanson was an obstetrician and gynecologist in New York City, New York, who argued for, and later against, women's rights to abortion.…
PeopleObstetriciansGynecologistsAbortionUltrasonics in obstetrics
George W. Beadle's One Gene-One Enzyme Hypothesis
By: Divyash Chhetri
| Published: May 23, 2014
The one gene-one enzyme hypothesis, proposed by George Wells Beadle in the US in 1941, is the theory that each gene directly produces a single enzyme…
Beadle, George Wells, 1903-1989GeneticsGenetics, ExperimentalDrosophila melanogaster
“Mesenchymal and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: General Insights and Clinical Perspectives” (2015), by Helena D. Zomer, Antanásio S. Vidane, Natalia G. Gonçalves, and Carlos E. Ambrósio
By: Alexis Darby
| Published: Aug 04, 2021
In 2015, biologist Helena D. Zomer and colleagues published the review article “Mesenchymal and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: General Insights and…
LiteratureStem CellsEmbryonic Stem CellsStem Cell ResearchIps
Ethics and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
By: Katherine Brind'Amour
| Published: Jun 10, 2009
The recent development of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and related technologies has caught the attention of scientists, activists,…
ethicsStem Cells