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In 1924, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, aka JBS Haldane, published Daedalus; or Science and The Future, hereafter Daedalus, which was a written…
In vitro fertilizationFertilityEctogenesisReproductive technologyClassification--Books--Science fictionIn 2010, Maria Dominguez-Bello, Elizabeth Costello, Monica Contreras, and colleagues published “Delivery Mode Shapes the Acquisition and Structure of…
Cesarean SectionObstetric DeliveryMicrobiotaMicrobiomeBacteriaArnold Henry Kegel worked and carried out research in the medical field of gynecology in the US during the twentieth century. Through his work, Kegel…
Pelvic FloorPelvic Floor DisordersPelvic Organ ProlapseUterine ProlapseUrinary IncontinenceRevive and Restore is a California-based nonprofit that uses genetic engineering to help solve conservation problems, such as saving endangered…
OrganizationExtinction (Biology)MammothsMammuthusWoolly mammothMatthew Meselson, Franklin Stahl, and Jerome Vinograd, developed cesium chloride, or CsCl, density gradient centrifugation in the 1950s at the…
TechnologyDNA ReplicationDNA replication--RegulationCentrifugation, Density GradientOrganonitrogen compoundsAristotle studied developing organisms, among other things, in ancient Greece, and his writings shaped Western philosophy and natural science for…
GreecedevelopmentphilosophyPlatoPhysicsFrank Rattray Lillie's research on freemartins from 1914 to 1920 in the US led to the theory that hormones partly caused for sex differentiation in…
Lillie, Frank Rattray, 1870-1947Intersexuality in animalsFreemartinismHormonesExperimentsMaternal consumption of alcohol (ethanol) during pregnancy can inhibit prenatal growth, resulting in fetuses that are small for gestational age.…
fetal alcohol syndromeHuman DevelopmentPrenatal exposure to alcohol (ethanol) in human and animal models results in a range of alcohol-induced developmental defects. In humans, those…
fetal alcohol syndromeReproductionHuman DevelopmentA designer baby is a baby genetically engineered in vitro for specially selected traits, which can vary from lowered disease-risk to gender selection…
ethicsReproductionReproductive RightsGenetic EngineeringEugenics