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Mary Frances Lyon (1925–2014)
By: Devangana Shah
| Published: Jul 04, 2025
Mary Frances Lyon studied gene expression and developed the theory of X-chromosome inactivation, also called Lyonization, during the twentieth…
Gene ExpressionX Chromosome InactivationLyon HypothesisLyonizationMutation
Oliver Smithies (1925–2017)
By: Alexander Sastokas
| Published: Jun 30, 2025
Oliver Smithies researched physical chemistry, biochemistry, and genetics in England, Canada, and the United States during the twentieth and early…
Genetic TechniquesElectrophoresis, Starch GelMice, KnockoutGenetics--ResearchElectrophoresis
Charles Drew (1904–1950)
By: Sabrin Mohamed
| Published: Jun 30, 2025
Charles Richard Drew was an African American surgeon who helped improve blood transfusion practices during World War II and contributed to the…
Blood TransfusionMaternal MortalityBlack or African AmericanBlood banksAfrican Americans in medicine
Ernest Armstrong McCulloch (1926–2011)
By: Akaash Surendra
| Published: Jun 19, 2025
Ernest Armstrong McCulloch was a medical researcher who studied the biology of blood cells and blood cancer in Toronto, Ontario, in the second half…
Hematopoietic Stem CellsHematopoiesisLeukemia, Myeloid, AcuteScientists--BiographyAcute myeloid leukemia
Irving Lerner Weissman (1939– )
By: Akaash Surendra
| Published: Jun 19, 2025
Irving Lerner Weissman is a researcher and professor in developmental biology at the Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California.…
Stem Cell ResearchHematologic NeoplasmsImmunologic TechniquesStem CellsImmunology
Arizona Revised Statutes 13-3603 (1864)
By: Manar Hajja
| Published: Jun 19, 2025
Arizona Revised Statutes 13-3603 (1864), or ARS 13-3603, was a territorial law enacted in 1864 before Arizona was granted statehood that banned…
Abortion, InducedAbortion, LegalReproductive RightsAbortion--Law and legislation--United StatesArizona--Politics and government
Arizona Senate Bill 1164 (2022)
By: Manar Hajja
| Published: Jun 19, 2025
Arizona Senate Bill 1164 (2022), or SB 1164, prohibited abortions after fifteen weeks of pregnancy except when necessary to protect the life or…
Abortion, InducedAbortion, LegalReproductive RightsAbortion--Law and legislation--United StatesArizona--Politics and government
Vaginal Microbiome Consortium (2007– )
By: Esther Low
| Published: Jun 13, 2025
The Vaginal Microbiome Consortium, or the VMC, established in 2007, consists of a group of researchers, clinicians, statisticians, and geneticists…
Female Urogenital DiseasesPremature BirthMicrobiotaVaginaWomen’s health services
“An Extra-Uterine System to Physiologically Support the Extreme Premature Lamb” (2017), by Emily Partridge, Marcus Davey, Matthew Hornick, Patrick McGovern, Ali Mejaddam, Jesse Vrecenak, Carmen Mesas-Burgos, Aliza Olive, Robert Caskey, et al.
By: Aubrey Pinteric
| Published: Jun 13, 2025
In April 2017, Alan Flake and colleagues published “An Extra-Uterine System to Physiologically Support the Extreme Premature Lamb,” hereafter “An…
Premature BirthbioethicsArtificial OrgansFetus--DevelopmentExtracorporeal membrane oxygenation
James Daniel Hardy (1918–2003)
By: Aubrey Pinteric
| Published: Jun 13, 2025
James Daniel Hardy was a surgeon and researcher practicing in the United States during the twentieth century who studied organ transplantation, or…
Heart Transplantorgan transplantationGeneral SurgerybioethicsCardiovascular System