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David Wildt's Evolving Ethics Concerning the Roles of Wildlife Reproductive Sciences in Species Conservation
By: Caroline Appleton
| Published: Aug 18, 2014
David Wildt is an animal reproductive biologist who directs the Conservation Biology Institute in Fort Royal, Virginia. In 1986, Wildt argued that…
ethicsFertilization in VitroEmbryo transplantationReproductive technologyEndangered Species
Ooplasmic Transfer Technology
By: Dorothy R. Haskett
| Published: Aug 18, 2014
Ooplasmic transfer, also called cytoplasmic transfer, is an outside the body, in vitro fertilization (IVF) technique. Ooplasmic transfer in humans (…
TechnologyFertilization in vitro, HumanFertilization in Vitro
Robert Geoffrey Edwards's Study of in vitro Mammalian Oocyte Maturation, 1960 to 1965
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: Aug 18, 2014
In 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 Hormone
Edward Drinker Cope's Law of Acceleration of Growth
By: M. Elizabeth Barnes
| Published: Jul 24, 2014
The Law of Acceleration of Growth is a theory proposed by Edward Drinker Cope in the US during the nineteenth century. Cope developed it in an…
developmentEvolutionCope, E. D. (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897Growth and Development
Beadle and Ephrussi's Transplantation Technique for Drosophila
By: Divyash Chhetri
| Published: Jun 29, 2014
Boris Ephrussi and George Wells Beadle developed a transplantation technique on flies, Drosophila melanogaster, which they described in their 1936…
TechnologyTissue ExtractsGenesTransplantation of organs, tissues, etc.Tissue Transplantation
Walter Stanborough Sutton (1877-1916)
By: Abhinav Mishra
| Published: Jun 27, 2014
Walter Stanborough Sutton studied grasshoppers and connected the phenomena of meiosis, segregation, and independent assortment with the chromosomal…
ChromosomesHeredityBoveri, Theodor, 1862-1915Wilson, Edmund B. (Edmund Beecher), 1856-1939Genetics
"Genetic Control of Biochemical Reactions in Neurospora" (1941), by George W. Beadle and Edward L. Tatum
By: Divyash Chhetri
| Published: Jun 11, 2014
George Wells Beadle and Edward Lawrie Tatum's 1941 article Genetic Control of Biochemical Reactions in Neurospora detailed their experiments on how…
GenesGeneticsExperimentsNeurosporaMolecular Biology
Infantile Autism: The Syndrome and Its Implications for a Neural Theory of Behavior (1964), by Bernard Rimland
By: Sean Cohmer
| Published: May 23, 2014
Infantile Autism: The Syndrome and Its Implications for a Neural Theory of Behavior (hereafter Infantile Autism) is a book written by Bernard Rimland…
LiteratureAutism in childrenAutismAutism spectrum disordersChildren with autism spectrum disorders
Embryonic Sex Differentiation and Sex Hormones (1947), by Carl R. Moore
By: Mary Drago
| Published: May 03, 2014
In 1947, Carl Richard Moore, a researcher at the University of Chicago, in Chicago, Illinois, wrote Embryonic Sex Differentiation and Sex Hormones,…
LiteratureEndocrinologyHormones, SexGonadal Steroid HormonesFreemartinism
Bernard Rimland (1928-2006)
By: Sean Cohmer
| Published: May 03, 2014
Bernard Rimland studied autism in children in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century. His early research in the 1950s and into…
AutismAutism spectrum disordersAutism in children