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According to the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the standard American source on stem cell research, three characteristics of stem cells…
Stem CellsThe scientific field of embryology experienced great growth in scope and direction in Germany from approximately 1850 to 1920. During this time,…
PeopleZiegler, Adolf, 1820-BiographyModelsIn 1924, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, aka JBS Haldane, published Daedalus; or Science and The Future, hereafter Daedalus, which was a written…
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LiteratureAbortionAbortion, InducedInduced AbortionInformed ConsentHistorically the exact age of human embryo specimens has long perplexed embryologists. With the menstrual history of the mother often unknown or not…
Mall, Franklin P. (Franklin Paine), 1862-1917Human DevelopmentCarnegie Institution of WashingtonJacques Loeb experimented on embryos in Europe and the United States at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Among…
PeopleParthenogenesisBiographyIn 2016, physician researchers Agustin Conde-Agudelo and José Díaz-Rossello published “Kangaroo Mother Care to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality in Low…
LiteratureBirth weight, LowInfant CareBreastfeedingMother and infantTransposition of the great arteries or TGA is a potentially fatal congenital heart malformation where the pulmonary artery and the aorta are switched…
Transposition of Great VesselsMustard, William T., 1914-1987Congenital Heart DiseaseSenning OperationHermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex, by historian of science Alice Domurat Dreger, was published in 1998 by Harvard University Press. In…
LiteratureIntersex peopleGonads--DiseasesDisorders of Sex DevelopmentSexDavid Edwin Wildt developed and applied assisted reproductive technologies to conserve rare and endangered wildlife species in the US during the…
CheetahFertilization in VitroEmbryo transplantationReproductive technologyEndangered Species