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Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. (2013)
By: Abigail Cave
| Published: Aug 02, 2024
In the 2013 legal case Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., hereafter AMP v. Myriad, the United States Supreme Court held in…
PatentNucleotide sequenceBreast CancerBRCA1 geneBRCA2 gene
“Labor and Delivery Outcomes among Young Adolescents” (2015), by Ana J. Torvie, Lisa S. Callegari, Melissa A. Schiff, Katherine E. Debiec
By: Molly Jacobson
| Published: Aug 15, 2022
In July 2015, Ana J. Torvie, Lisa S. Callegari, Melissa A. Schiff, and Katherine E. Debiec published “Labor and Delivery Outcomes Among Young…
LiteratureTeenage pregnancyTeenage pregnancy--United StatesLabor (Obstetrics)Cesarean Section
“The Infectious Origins of Stillbirth” (2003) by Robert L. Goldenberg and Cortney Thompson
By: Ajeet Bains
| Published: Mar 23, 2022
In September 2003, Robert L. Goldenberg and Cortney Thompson published the article “The Infectious Origins of Stillbirth” in the American Journal of…
LiteratureFetal deathInfectionQ FeverMalaria in pregnancy
Alfred Day Hershey (1908–1997)
By: Victoria Hernandez
| Published: Apr 29, 2019
During the twentieth century in the United States, Alfred Day Hershey studied phages, or viruses that infect bacteria, and experimentally verified…
Hershey, A. D. (Alfred Day), 1908-Bacteriophage lambdaPhage lambdaBacteriophages--GeneticsBacteriophages
The Shettles Method of Sex Selection
By: Alysse Blight
| Published: Apr 03, 2019
In the 1960s in the United States Landrum B. Shettles developed the Shettles method, which is a procedure for couples to use prior to and during an…
TechnologySex PreselectionSex PredeterminationFamily PlanningSex Chromosomes
Annie Dodge Wauneka (1910-1997)
By: Malladi Lakshmeeramya
| Published: Dec 19, 2017
Annie Dodge Wauneka, a member of the Navajo Tribal Council in Window Rock, Arizona, from 1951 to 1978, advocated for improved lifestyle, disease…
Presidential Medal of Freedompublic healthChild mortalityAlcoholismPneumonia
Pfeffer Cell Apparatus
By: Sara Parker
| Published: Oct 24, 2017
The Pfeffer Zelle (Pfeffer Cell Apparatus), invented by Wilhelm Pfeffer in 1877, measured the minimum pressure needed to prevent a pure solvent from…
TechnologyPlant cell membranesPlants--DevelopmentOsmosisMembranes (Technology)
Mary-Claire King (1946– )
By: Meilin Zhu
| Published: Aug 23, 2017
Mary-Claire King studied genetics in the US in the twenty-first century. King identified two genes associated with the occurrence of breast cancer,…
GeneticsBreast--Cancer--SusceptibilityBreast--Cancer--Prognosis--Statistical methods--CongressesBreast--Cancer--ResearchDNA fingerprinting
Heart of a Dog (1925), by Mikhail Bulgakov
By: Grace Kim
| Published: May 29, 2017
Собачье сердце (Heart of a Dog) is a novella written in 1925 by author and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov in Moscow, USSR, later Russia. An early…
LiteratureEugenicsCommunismSoviet UnionCensorship
"The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme" (1979), by Stephen J. Gould and Richard C. Lewontin
By: M. Elizabeth Barnes
| Published: Nov 14, 2014
The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme, hereafter called The Spandrels, is an article…
LiteratureGould, Stephen JayEvolutionAdaptationBaer, Karl Ernst von, 1792-1876