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Jacques Loeb is best known for his embryological work investigating parthenogenesis in invertebrates. Artificial Parthenogenesis and Fertilization is…
LiteratureParthenogenesisPublicationsFertilizationBiology textbooks are everybody's business. In accepting the view that texts are created with specific social goals in mind, I examined 127 twentieth…
TextbooksBook IllustrationsPictorial WorkPublicationsLeonard Hayflick in the US during the early 1960s showed that normal populations of embryonic cells divide a finite number of times. He published his…
Cell DivisionBiology, ExperimentalCells, CulturedEmbryo Culture Techniquescell agingJames M Cummins published 'The Role of Maternal Mitochondria during Oogenesis, Fertilization and Embryogenesis' 30 January 2002 in Reproductive…
LiteratureMitochondriaEmbryologyFertilization (Biology)OvumConrad Hal Waddington's "Experiments on the Development of Chick and Duck Embryos, Cultivated in vitro," published in 1932 in Philosophical…
Waddington, C. H. (Conrad Hal), 1905-1975ExperimentsChicksDucksEdmund Beecher Wilson in the US published An Atlas of Fertilization and Karyokinesis of the Ovum (hereafter called An Atlas) in 1895. The book…
LiteratureKaryokinesisFertilization (Biology)ConceptionDevelopmental BiologyIn a series of experiments between 1960 and 1965, Robert Geoffrey Edwards discovered how to make mammalian egg cells, or oocytes, mature outside of a…
Edwards, R. G. (Robert Geoffrey), 1925-2013Fertilization in VitroIn Vitro Oocyte Maturation TechniquesOocytesLuteinizing HormoneJacques Loeb broadened and corrected his earlier claims concerning artificial parthenogenesis in sea urchins in a series of experiments in 1900. He…
ParthenogenesisExperimentsSea UrchinsOvum 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…
LiteraturePublicationsReproductionHuman DevelopmentOvaJacques Loeb showed that scientists could achieve artificial parthenogenesis with some types of annelid worm eggs through a series of experiments in…
ParthenogenesisExperimentsWorms