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Fetal Surgery
By: Kathleen O'Connor, Erica O'Neil
| Published: Nov 01, 2012
Fetal surgeries are a range of medical interventions performed in utero on the developing fetus of a pregnant woman to treat a number of congenital…
Fetus--SurgeryFetoscopyUltrasonics in obstetricsPregnancyEndoscopy
A History of Embryology (1959), by Joseph Needham
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 28, 2010
In 1931 embryologist and historian Joseph Needham published a well-received three-volume treatise titled Chemical Embryology. The first four chapters…
LiteratureNeedham, Joseph, 1900-1995Publicationshistory
"The Multi-Dimensional Human Embryo"
By: Sarah Ly
| Published: Mar 24, 2011
The Multi-Dimensional Human Embryo website (http://embryo.soad.umich.edu/) is a publicly accessible online database of the first three-dimensional…
OrganizationOrganizationsHuman Development
Magnetic Resonance Microscopy (MRM)
By: Sarah Ly
| Published: Mar 24, 2011
Magnetic Resonance Microscopy (MRM) is an imaging method that allows the visualization of internal body structures. Using powerful magnets to send…
TechnologyMagnetic resonance microscopyMagnetic resonance imagingMicroscopy
"Purification of a Nerve-Growth Promoting Protein from the Mouse Salivary Gland and its Neuro-Cytoxic Antiserum" (1960), by Stanley Cohen
By: Adam R. Navis
| Published: Oct 30, 2007
Stanley Cohen published "Purification of a Nerve-Growth Promoting Protein from the Mouse Salivary Gland and its Neuro-Cytoxic Antiserum" in the…
Cohen, Stanley, 1937-Nerve Growth FactorExperimentsMice
My Father, My Son (1986), by Elmo Zumwalt, Jr., Elmo Zumwalt III, and John Pekkanen
By: Ceci Chou
| Published: Jun 16, 2017
My Father, My Son is a dual autobiography by father and son Elmo Russell Zumwalt Jr. and Elmo Russell Zumwalt III published by Macmillan Publishing…
LiteratureAgent OrangeHerbicidesSpina BifidaOperation Ranch Hand, 1962-1971
Copper Intrauterine Device (IUD)
By: Victoria Higginbotham
| Published: Jul 05, 2018
The copper intrauterine device, or IUD, is a long-term, reversible contraceptive first introduced by Howard Tatum and Jamie Zipper in 1967. Health…
ContraceptivesCopper intrauterine contraceptivesDalkon Shield (Intrauterine contraceptive)Levonorgestrel intrauterine contraceptivesNorgestrel
"On the Replication of Desoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA)" (1954), by Max Delbruck
By: Victoria Hernandez
| Published: Sep 21, 2017
In 1954 Max Delbruck published On the Replication of Desoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) to question the semi-conservative DNA replication mechanism…
LiteratureHolmes, Frederic LawrenceMeselson, MatthewStahl, Franklin W.Watson, James D., 1928-
"Experiments on Artificial Parthenogenesis in Annelids (Chaetopterus) and the Nature of the Process of Fertilization" (1901), by Jacques Loeb
By: Steve Elliott
| Published: Jun 10, 2009
Jacques Loeb showed that scientists could achieve artificial parthenogenesis with some types of annelid worm eggs through a series of experiments in…
ParthenogenesisExperimentsWorms
John Spangler Nicholas (1895-1963)
By: Ellen M. DuPont
| Published: Jul 23, 2008
John Spangler Nicholas, an American biologist, was born on 10 March 1895 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. He was the only child of Elizabeth Ellen…
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