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Girolamo Fabrici (1537-1619)
By: Hilary Gilson
| Published: Aug 26, 2008
Girolamo Fabrici, known as Hieronymus Fabricius in Latin, was given the surname Aquapendente from the city where he was born, near Orvieto, Italy.…
PeopleBiographyFetusAnatomy
“A New Vision for Advancing Our Movement for Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights, and Reproductive Justice” (2005), by Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice (ACRJ)
By: Richa Venkatraman
| Published: Nov 17, 2020
In 2005, the organization Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice, or ACRJ, published “A New Vision for Advancing Our Movement for Reproductive…
LiteratureReproductive RightsReproductive Health ServicesReproductive HealthCommunication in reproductive health
Meiosis in Humans
By: Inbar Maayan
| Published: Mar 24, 2011
Meiosis, the process by which sexually-reproducing organisms generate gametes (sex cells), is an essential precondition for the normal formation of…
MeiosisReproductionHuman Development
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818-1865)
By: Safiya Shaikh, Daniella Caudle
| Published: Apr 06, 2017
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis demonstrated that the use of disinfectants could reduce the occurrence of puerperal fever in patients in nineteenth century…
Puerperal septicemiaSepsisSepticemiaAntisepticsInfection, Puerperal
James Edgar Till (1931– )
By: Ajeet Bains
| Published: Nov 20, 2020
James Edgar Till is a biophysicist known for establishing the existence of stem cells along with Ernest McCulloch in 1963. Stem cells are…
PeopleStem CellsHematopoietic Stem CellsProgenitor CellsStem cells--Effect of radiation on
Conjoined Twins
By: Corinne DeRuiter
| Published: Nov 03, 2011
Conjoined twins are twins whose bodies are anatomically joined in utero. The degree to which the twins are attached can range from simple, involving…
Twins, ConjoinedReproductionFetus
Photograph 51, by Rosalind Franklin (1952)
By: Victoria Hernandez
| Published: Dec 30, 2019
On 6 May 1952, at King’s College London in London, England, Rosalind Franklin photographed her fifty-first X-ray diffraction pattern of…
LiteratureDNADNA HelicasesX Ray CrystallographyCrystallography, X-Ray
Elinor Catherine Hamlin (1924- )
By: Patsy Ciardullo
| Published: Mar 19, 2015
Elinor Catherine Hamlin founded and helped fund centers in Ethiopia to treat women affected by fistulas from obstetric complications. Obstetric…
EthiopiaAustraliaFistulaFistula, Vesico-vaginalVoluntary Health Agencies
Wilhelm Friedrich Phillip Pfeffer (1845-1920)
By: Sara Parker
| Published: Nov 30, 2014
Wilhelm Friedrich Phillip Pfeffer studied plants in Germany during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He started his career as an…
Plant physiologyBotanyPlants--Irritability and movementsOsmotic PressureChemotaxis
"The Role of Urethra in Female Orgasm" (1950), by Ernst Gräfenberg
By: Baylee A. Edwards
| Published: Sep 14, 2022
In 1950, physician and researcher Ernst Gräfenberg published “The Role of Urethra in Female Orgasm,” in the International Journal of Sexology. The…
LiteratureFemale orgasmG spotFrigidity (Psychology)Urethra