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Charles Bradlaugh (1833–1891)
By: Caroline Meek
| Published: Oct 11, 2017
Charles Bradlaugh was as a political and social activist in the seventeenth century in England. He held leadership positions in various organizations…
Knowlton, Charles, 1800-1850Bradlaugh, Charles, 1833-1891Besant, Annie, 1847-1933Birth ControlObscenity (Law)--Great Britain
Irving Freiler Stein Sr. (1887–1976)
By: Alexis Darby
| Published: Jul 20, 2017
Irving Freiler Stein Sr. was a physician who studied women’s reproductive health during the twentieth century in the United States. In partnership…
Polycystic ovary syndromeInfertilityInfertility, FemaleovaryContraception
Diana W. Bianchi
By: Alexis Abboud
| Published: Jun 23, 2017
Diana W. Bianchi studied the medical treatment of premature and newborn infants in the US during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Bianchi…
Prenatal DiagnosisGenetics
Robert Geoffrey Edwards's Study of Fertilization of Human Oocytes Matured in vitro, 1965 to 1969
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: Mar 10, 2011
Robert Geoffrey Edwards, a British developmental biologist at University of Cambridge, began exploring human in vitro fertilization (IVF) as a way to…
Fertilization in VitroExperimentsReproductionFertilizationOocytes
"Cell Deaths in Normal Vertebrate Ontogeny" (1951), by Alfred Glücksmann
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: Dec 06, 2010
The review article “Cell Deaths in Normal Vertebrate Ontogeny” (abbreviated as “Cell Deaths”) was published in Biological Reviews of the Cambridge…
LiteratureCell DeathPublicationsVertebratesOntogeny
40 Weeks (2014)
By: Jessica Cartwright
| Published: Jan 30, 2019
In 2014, Big Belli, a media and social networking brand, released a documentary called 40 Weeks online. The documentary, directed by Christopher…
LiteraturePregnancyConceptionLabor (Obstetrics)Prenatal influences
"The linear arrangement of six sex-linked factors in drosophila, as shown by their mode of association” (1913), by Alfred Henry Sturtevant
By: Kevin Gleason
| Published: May 22, 2017
In 1913, Alfred Henry Sturtevant published the results of experiments in which he showed how genes are arranged along a chromosome. Sturtevant…
DrosophilaHeredityInheritance of acquired charactersColumbia University--Graduate studentsMutation
George Nicholas Papanicolaou (1883–1962)
By: Patsy Ciardullo
| Published: Apr 06, 2017
George Nicholas Papanicolaou developed the Pap test in the United States during the twentieth century. The Pap test is a diagnostic procedure used to…
Pap TestExfoliative cytologyCervical CancerMenstrual CycleUterine Cancer
"Maternal Thyroid Deficiency During Pregnancy and Subsequent Neuropsychological Development of the Child" (1999), by James E. Haddow et al.
By: Jennifer R. Craer
| Published: Jul 11, 2014
From 1987 to the late 1990s, James Haddow and his team of researchers at the Foundation for Blood Research in Scarborough, Maine, studied children…
HypothyroidismCongenital HypothyroidismThyroid HormonesThyroid GlandThyrotropin
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