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“A Two-Factor Hypothesis of Freezing Injury: Evidence from Chinese Hamster Tissue-Culture Cells” (1972), by Peter Mazur, Stanley Leibo, and Ernest Chu
By: Risa Aria Schnebly
| Published: Mar 02, 2021
In 1972, Peter Mazur, Stanley Leibo, and Ernest Chu published, “A Two-Factor Hypothesis of Freezing Injury: Evidence from Chinese Hamster Tissue-…
LiteratureCryonicsCryosurgeryMedicine--History--20th centuryOsmosis
Henrietta Lacks (1920–1951)
By: Rohini Nott
| Published: Oct 09, 2020
Henrietta Lacks, born Loretta Pleasant, had terminal cervical cancer in 1951, and was diagnosed at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore,…
PeopleAfrican American History MonthWomen in medicine--HistoryMedicine--United States--Historybioethics
“Survival of Mouse Embryos Frozen to -196 ° and -269 °C” (1972), by David Whittingham, Stanley Leibo, and Peter Mazur
By: Risa Aria Schnebly
| Published: Oct 01, 2020
In 1972, David Whittingham, Stanley Leibo, and Peter Mazur published the paper, “Survival of Mouse Embryos Frozen to -196 ° and -269 °C,” hereafter…
LiteratureCultures (Biology)--CryopreservationCells--CryopreservationMolecular weightsCryobiology
David Hunter Hubel (1926–2013)
By: Dina A. Lienhard
| Published: Jan 03, 2018
David Hunter Hubel studied the development of the visual system and how the brain processes visual information in the US during the twentieth century…
Hubel, David H.Kuffler, Stephen W.Wiesel, Torsten N.Johns Hopkins Medical SchoolHarvard Medical School
Mary-Claire King (1946– )
By: Meilin Zhu
| Published: Aug 23, 2017
Mary-Claire King studied genetics in the US in the twenty-first century. King identified two genes associated with the occurrence of breast cancer,…
GeneticsBreast--Cancer--SusceptibilityBreast--Cancer--Prognosis--Statistical methods--CongressesBreast--Cancer--ResearchDNA fingerprinting
Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Protection Act (1921)
By: Katherine Madgett
| Published: May 18, 2017
In November 1921, US Congress passed the National Maternity and Infancy Protection Act, also called the Sheppard-Towner Act. The Act provided federal…
LawPrenatal care--Law and legislationMaternal and infant welfare--United StatesPregnancyBirth
Adib Jatene (1929–2014)
By: Daniella Caudle
| Published: Apr 20, 2017
Adib Jatene in Brazil was the first surgeon to successfully perform the arterial switch operation in 1975. The operation corrected a heart condition…
Heart--SurgeryTransposition of Great VesselsCongenital Heart DiseaseAorta--AbnormalitiesPulmonary artery--Abnormalities
William Thornton Mustard (1914-1987)
By: Daniella Caudle
| Published: Feb 11, 2017
William Thornton Mustard was a surgeon in Canada during the twentieth century who developed surgical techniques to treat children who had congenital…
PoliomyelitisTransposition of Great VesselsHemolytic AnemiaBlood GroupsBlood Cells
Julia Barlow Platt (1857-1935)
By: Karina Ramirez
| Published: Jun 27, 2016
Julia Barlow Platt studied neural crests in animal embryos and became involved in politics in the US during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.…
DogfishNeural CrestNervous SystemCartilageGerm Layers
Friedrich Tiedemann (1781-1861)
By: Jonathon LaTourelle
| Published: Jul 07, 2015
Friedrich Tiedemann studied the anatomy of humans and animals in the nineteenth century in Germany. He published on zoological subjects, on the heart…
BrainAnatomy, ComparativeEmbryologyFetal braindevelopment