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By: Britta Martinez | Published: Oct 10, 2012

Gunther von Hagens invented a plastination technique and created Body Worlds, a traveling exhibit that has made anatomy part of the public domain.…

By: Stephen C. Ruffenach | Published: Jul 21, 2009

Ovum Humanum was written and compiled by Dr. Landrum Brewer Shettles while he worked as a doctor in New York. The publication contains an atlas of…

By: Kate MacCord | Published: Jan 31, 2013

Tooth enamel contains relics of its formation process, in the form of microstructures, which indicate the incremental way in which it forms. These…

By: Hilary Gilson | Published: Aug 27, 2008

The embryological treatise De formato foetu (The Formed Fetus) was written by anatomist and embryologist Girolamo Fabrici. There is no conclusive…

By: Nicole Erjavic | Published: Jan 10, 2018

Andreas Vesalius, also called Andries van Wesel, studied anatomy during the sixteenth century in Europe. Throughout his career, Vesalius thoroughly…

By: Kate MacCord | Published: Oct 17, 2012

Frederik Ruysch, working in the Netherlands, introduced the term epithelia in the third volume of his Thesaurus Anatomicus in 1703. Ruysch created…

By: Karla T. Moeller | Published: Jan 01, 2012

Edward Drinker Cope studied fossils and anatomy in the US in the late nineteenth century. Based on his observations of skeletal morphology, Cope…

By: Kate MacCord | Published: Nov 17, 2013

Endoderm is one of the germ layers-- aggregates of cells that organize early during embryonic life and from which all organs and tissues develop.…