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Lymphoblastoid Cell Line (LCL)
By: Matthew Tontonoz
| Published: Aug 09, 2025
A lymphoblastoid cell line, or LCL, is an immortalized population of cells derived from a specific type of white blood cell called a B lymphocyte…
virusesEpstein-Barr Virus InfectionsB-LymphocytesTissue Culture TechniquesHeLa Cells
“Fate of the Foreskin: A Study of Circumcision” (1949) by Douglas Gairdner
By: Matthew Tontonoz
| Published: Aug 09, 2025
In 1949, Douglas Gairdner, a pediatrician in Cambridge, England, published “Fate of the Foreskin: A Study of Circumcision,” hereafter, “Fate of the…
Circumcision, MaleForeskinHPV-31PhimosisForeskin--Surgery
Lewis Albert Sayre (1820–1900)
By: Matthew Tontonoz
| Published: Aug 09, 2025
Lewis Albert Sayre was an orthopedic surgeon who practiced medicine in New York City, New York, during the second half of the nineteenth century and…
Circumcision, MaleForeskinScoliosisSurgical CastsAmerican Medical Association
Ectogenesis as a Theme in The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution (1970), by Shulamith Firestone
By: Aubrey Pinteric
| Published: Aug 08, 2025
In 1970, Shulamith Firestone, a self-described radical feminist and writer, published The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution,…
FertilityEctogenesisReproductive technologyFeminism and scienceFeminism in the press
“Human Organoids: Tools for Understanding Biology and Treating Diseases” (2020), by Frans Schutgens and Hans Clevers
By: Aida Movahed
| Published: Aug 08, 2025
In 2020, Frans Schutgens and Hans Clevers published “Human Organoids: Tools for Understanding Biology and Treating Diseases,” hereafter “Human…
OrganoidsCell Culture Techniques, Three DimensionalPrimary Cell Cultureinduced pluripotent stem cellsAdult Stem Cells
“Human Acute Myeloid Leukemia Is Organized as a Hierarchy That Originates from a Primitive Hematopoietic Cell” (1997), by Dominique Bonnet and John E. Dick
By: Akaash Surendra
| Published: Aug 08, 2025
In the 1990s, John E. Dick and Dominique Bonnet, researchers at the University of Toronto, in Toronto, Ontario, investigated how a blood cancer…
Leukemia, Myeloid, AcuteStem Cell ResearchAcute myeloid leukemiaStem CellsCarcinogenesis
Sanger Sequencing
By: Tea Zawilak
| Published: Aug 08, 2025
Sanger sequencing is a laboratory method that scientists use to determine the sequence of nucleotides within a piece of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA…
Sequence Analysis, DNAGenomicsPolymerase chain reactionNucleotide sequenceGenetics
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study (1932–1972)
By: Sabrin Mohamed
| Published: Aug 07, 2025
In 1932, the United States Public Health Service, or USPHS, began the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, initially known as the Tuskegee Study of Untreated…
SyphilisTuskegee Syphilis StudyInformed ConsentBlack or African AmericanSyphilis--Research--United States
Ben A. Barres (1954–2017)
By: Aida Movahed
| Published: Aug 06, 2025
Ben Barres researched neurobiology during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries as a professor at Stanford University School of…
Neurodegenerative DiseasesNeurogliaOligodendrogliaOligodendrocyte Precursor CellsBrain
Protein Information Resource
By: Nicole Brewer
| Published: Aug 06, 2025
The Protein Information Resource, or PIR, is an online, publicly available resource that contains databases of protein sequences and computer…
ProteinsComputational BiologyDatabases, ProteinBioinformaticsAmino Acid Sequence