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Percivall Pott (1714-1788)
By: Carolina Abboud
| Published: May 31, 2017
Percivall Pott was a physician in England during the eighteenth century who identified soot as the cause of chimney sweeps' scrotal cancer, later…
Pott, Percivall, 1714-1788CancerChimney sweepsPott Puffy TumorCarcinoma, Squamous Cell
Truman William Brophy (1848–1928)
By: Jillian Renee Kersten
| Published: Feb 11, 2017
Truman William Brophy developed a cleft palate surgical repair, later called the Brophy Operation, in the late nineteenth century US. The procedure…
Cleft PalateDental EducationAmerican Dental AssociationmalformationsBirth Defects
Robert Lanza (1956- )
By: Christopher Rojas
| Published: Feb 11, 2015
During the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Robert Paul Lanza studied embryonic stem cells, tissues, and endangered species as chief scientific…
Advanced Cell Technology (Firm)BantengCloningEmbryosEmbryonic Stem Cells
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-2011)
By: Jennifer R. Craer
| Published: Sep 10, 2013
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow co-developed the radioimmunoassay (RIA), a method used to measure minute biological compounds that cause immune systems to…
RadioimmunoassayImmunoassayIsotopesPhysiologyNuclear Medicine
Robert Geoffrey Edwards (1925-2013)
By: Samuel Philbrick
| Published: Jun 20, 2011
Robert Geoffrey Edwards worked with Patrick Christopher Steptoe to develop in-vitro fertilization (IVF) techniques during the 1960s and 1970s in the…
PeopleFertilization in VitroReproductionBiographyFertilization
"Alternative Sources of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells" (2005), by Leon Kass and the President’s Council on Bioethics
By: Samuel Philbrick
| Published: Feb 22, 2011
Human pluripotent stem cells are valued for their potential to form numerous specialized cells and for their longevity. In the US, where a portion of…
LiteratureKass, LeonStem CellsPublicationsethics
Adolescent Family Life Act (1981)
By: Rohini Nott
| Published: Oct 21, 2020
The 1981 Adolescent Family Life Act, or AFLA, is a US federal law that provides federal funding to public and nonprofit private organizations to…
Sexual AbstinenceSexual abstinence--Religious aspects--Catholic ChurchSexual abstinence--Religious aspectsSexual abstinence--Religious aspects--ChristianityChurch schools--Law and legislation--United States
Vincenz Czerny (1842–1916)
By: Margaret Zheng
| Published: Oct 06, 2020
Vincenz Czerny was a surgeon in the nineteenth century who specialized in cancer and women’s surgical care. Czerny performed one of the first breast…
PeopleHysterectomyVaginal hysterectomyEsophagectomySuturing
Your Baby’s Sex: Now You Can Choose (1970), by David M. Rorvik and Landrum B. Shettles
By: Alysse Blight
| Published: Oct 31, 2019
In the book Your Baby’s Sex: Now You Can Choose, David Michael Rorvik and Landrum Brewer Shettles describe methods that couples can use prior to and…
LiteratureSex PreselectionSex PredeterminationFamily PlanningGender
"On the Permanent Life of Tissues outside of the Organism" (1912), by Alexis Carrel
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: May 06, 2012
'On the Permanent Life of Tissues outside of the Organism' reports Alexis Carrel's 1912 experiments on the maintenance of tissue in culture media. At…
Tissue cultureStem CellsStem cells--ResearchEmbryologyGerm Cells