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Assisted Reproductive Technologies
By: Tian Zhu
| Published: Jul 22, 2009
Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) are a collection of different techniques designed to help those who are infertile achieve a successful…
TechnologyReproductive Techniques, AssistedReproductionFertilization
Plan B: Emergency Contraceptive Pill
By: Aliya Buttar, Sheraden Seward
| Published: Sep 04, 2008
Plan B is a progestin-only emergency contraceptive pill (ECP) that can be taken within seventy-two hours of unprotected sex in order to prevent an…
TechnologyContraceptionReproductionReproductive Rights
Leonardo da Vinci's Embryological Drawings of the Fetus
By: Hilary Gilson
| Published: Aug 19, 2008
Leonardo da Vinci's embryological drawings of the fetus in the womb and his accompanying observational annotations are found in the third volume of…
LiteratureHuman DevelopmentFetus
"Experiments on the Development of Chick and Duck Embryos, Cultivated in vitro" (1932), by Conrad Hal Waddington
By: Adam R. Navis
| Published: Nov 08, 2007
Conrad Hal Waddington's "Experiments on the Development of Chick and Duck Embryos, Cultivated in vitro," published in 1932 in Philosophical…
Waddington, C. H. (Conrad Hal), 1905-1975ExperimentsChicksDucks
Quickening
By: Katherine Brind'Amour
| Published: Oct 30, 2007
Quickening, the point at which a pregnant woman can first feel the movements of the growing embryo or fetus, has long been considered a pivotal…
Human DevelopmentethicsReproductionFetusAbortion
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
What Every Girl Should Know (1916), by Margaret Sanger
By: Malladi Lakshmeeramya
| Published: Dec 12, 2017
What Every Girl Should Know was published in 1916 in New York City, New York, as a compilation of articles written by Margaret Sanger from 1912 to…
LiteratureObscenity (Law)Abortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortionBirth control clinics
Action of MER-25 and of Clomiphene on the Human Ovary (1963)
By: Alexis J. Abboud, Alexis Darby
| Published: Nov 28, 2017
Between 1958 and 1962, physicians Olive W. Smith, George V. Smith, and Robert W. Kistner performed experiments that demonstrated the effects of the…
EthamoxytriphetolEstrogen AntagonistsClomiphenePituitary glandovary
Stafford Leak Warren (1896–1981)
By: Meilin Zhu
| Published: Aug 30, 2017
Stafford Leak Warren studied nuclear medicine in the United States during the twentieth century. He used radiation to make images of the body for…
Warren, Stafford L. (Stafford Leak), 1896-1981RadiologyMedical radiologyRadiology--ResearchCancer--Interventional radiology
On the Generation of Animals, by Aristotle
By: Cera R. Lawrence
| Published: Oct 02, 2010
Aristotle's On the Generation of Animals is referred to in Latin as De Generatione animalium. As with many of Aristotle's writings, the exact date of…
LiteratureReproductionPublicationsphilosophy