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Zhang Lizhu (1921- )
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: Aug 16, 2011
Zhang Lizhu is a Chinese gynecologist and researcher. For most of her career, she worked in the Peking Medical College Third Hospital, renamed in…
PeopleReproductionBiographyFertilization
"RNA-Guided Human Genome Engineering via Cas 9" (2013), by Prashant Mali, Luhan Yang, Kevin M. Esvelt, John Aach, Marc Guell, James E. DiCarlo, Julie E. Norville, and George M. Church
By: Meilin Zhu
| Published: Dec 27, 2017
In 2013, George Church and his colleagues at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts published RNA-Guided Human Genome Engineering via Cas 9,…
Literaturegene editingTranscription Activator-Like Effector NucleasesscFV green fluorescent protein, recombinantClustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats
Thesis: Surviving Cervical Cancer: A History of Prevention, Early Detection, and Treatment
By: Alexis Darby
| Published: Mar 22, 2021
This thesis answers the following question: How does the history of cervical cancer show that prevention helps reduce rates of cancer-related deaths…
Cervix uteri--CancerCervical CancerCancerHistory of MedicineMedicine, History
In the Matter of the Marriage of Dahl and Angle (2008)
By: Mark Zhang, Jennifer E. Chapman
| Published: May 06, 2014
In the 2008 court case In the Matter of the Marriage of Dahl and Angle, the Court of Appeals of Oregon upheld a written in vitro fertilization (IVF)…
LawFrozen human embryosFertilization in VitroEmbryo DispositionEmbryo
Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
By: Katherine Brind'Amour
| Published: Nov 11, 2007
Mother Teresa, a Roman Catholic nun known for her charitable work and attention to the poor, was born 26 August 1910. The youngest child of Albanian…
religionReproductionCatholicismContraceptionAbortion
Women’s Field Army (1936–1948)
By: Emily Santora, Alexis Darby
| Published: Jul 31, 2021
From 1936 to 1945, the Women’s Field Army, hereafter the WFA, educated women in the US on the early symptoms, prevention, and treatment of…
OrganizationCancercarcinomapublic healthUterine Cervical Neoplasms
Endothelium
By: Kate MacCord
| Published: Jan 28, 2014
The endothelium is the layer of cells lining the blood vessels in animals. It weighs more than one kilogram in adult humans, and it covers a surface…
EndotheliumTissuesEpitheliumCellsVascular endothelium
Niemann-Pick Disease
By: Tristan Cooper-Roth
| Published: Oct 11, 2010
In 1914 Albert Niemann, a German pediatrician who primarily studied infant metabolism, published a description of an Ashkenazi Jewish infant with…
Niemann-Pick DiseasesHuman DevelopmentCongenital Disorders
Eclipse of Reason (1987)
By: Sepehr Abdi-Moradi
| Published: Feb 11, 2017
Eclipse of Reason is a 1987 anti-abortion documentary film directed, filmed, and narrated by Bernard Nathanson, an obstetrician in the US. American…
LiteratureAbortionLate-term abortionPro-life movementFetus
Calvin Bridges’ Experiments on Nondisjunction as Evidence for the Chromosome Theory of Heredity (1913-1916)
By: Kevin Gleason
| Published: May 18, 2017
From 1913 to 1916, Calvin Bridges performed experiments that indicated genes are found on chromosomes. His experiments were a part of his doctoral…
DrosophilaHeredityInheritance of acquired charactersColumbia University--Graduate studentsMutation