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Pierre Franco (1505–1578)
By: Grace Rauch
| Published: Aug 07, 2024
Pierre Franco was a surgeon in Europe in the sixteenth century who developed a variety of surgical procedures, including some to repair hernias,…
Cleft PalateDevelopmental DisordersCleft LipHerniaCataract
Infant Mortality: Results of a Field Study in Johnstown, PA., Based on Births in One Calendar Year (1915), by Emma Duke
By: Katherine Madgett
| Published: Mar 23, 2017
The book Infant Mortality: Results of a Field Study in Johnstown, PA., Based on Births in One Calendar Year (1915), written by Emma Duke, detailed…
Infants--MortalitySocial WelfareMilkpublic healthRural Health
Gastrulation in Gallus gallus (Domestic Chicken)
By: Corinne DeRuiter, Maria Doty
| Published: Jun 21, 2011
Gastrulation is an early stage in embryo development in which the blastula reorganizes into three germ layers: the ectoderm, the mesoderm, and the…
GastrulationChicks
Marcello Malpighi (1646-1694)
By: Cera R. Lawrence
| Published: Sep 12, 2008
Marcello Malpighi studied chick embryos with microscopes in Italy during the seventeenth century. Trained as a medical doctor, he was among the first…
MicroscopyHistologyChick Embryo
Franklin Paine Mall (1862-1917)
By: Kimberly A. Buettner
| Published: Nov 01, 2007
Franklin Paine Mall was born into a farming family in Belle Plaine, Iowa, on 28 September 1862. While he attended a local academy, an influential…
BiographyEducation
Muriel Wheldale Onslow (1880-1932)
By: Samantha Hauserman
| Published: Oct 17, 2013
Muriel Wheldale Onslow studied flowers in England with genetic and biochemical techniques in the early twentieth century. Working with geneticist…
PeopleHeredityBiochemistryEpistasis (Genetics)Genetics
Form and Function (1916), by Edward Stuart Russell
By: Mark A. Ulett
| Published: Jun 20, 2010
In 1916, at the age of twenty-nine, Edward Stuart Russell published his first major work, Form and Function: a Contribution to the History of Animal…
LiteratureRussell, E. S. (Edward Stuart), 1887-1954PublicationsMorphology
Trisomy 21 (Down Syndrome)
By: Grace Fitzgerald
| Published: Aug 01, 2022
As of 2022, Trisomy 21 is the most common type of trisomy, or a condition where the person has three instead of the normal two copies of one of the…
Genetic DisordersGenetic disorders in childrenGenetic disorders in pregnancyGenetic disorders--DiagnosisDown syndrome
Michael R. Harrison (1943– )
By: Risa Aria Schnebly, Brianna Ellis
| Published: Aug 04, 2021
Michael R. Harrison worked as a pediatric surgeon in the US throughout the late-twentieth century and performed many fetal surgeries, including one…
Birth DefectsAbnormalities, HumanPediatric surgeonsMyelomeningoceleSpinal Dysraphism
A Series of YouTube Videos Detailing the “CRISPR Babies” Experiment (2018), by He Jiankui
By: Risa Aria Schnebly, Brianna Ellis
| Published: Jul 31, 2021
In 2018, He Jiankui uploaded a series of videos to a YouTube channel titled “The He Lab” that detailed one of the first instances of a successful…
Literaturegene editingGenome EditingCRISPR (Genetics)CRISPR-associated protein 9