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Making Visible Embryos (2008- ), by Tatjana Buklijaz and Nick Hopwood
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 25, 2010
Making Visible Embryos is a 2008 online exhibition of embryos authored and designed by Tatjana Buklijaz and Nick Hopwood who work in the Department…
OrganizationOrganizationsEducation
The Game of Life, by John Horton Conway
By: Julia Damerow
| Published: Jun 24, 2010
The Game of Life, or just Life, is a one-person game that was created by the English mathematician John Horton Conway in the late 1960s. It is a…
games
The Mechanistic Conception of Life (1912), by Jacques Loeb
By: Steve Elliott
| Published: Jun 15, 2010
Jacques Loeb published The Mechanistic Conception of Life in 1912. Loeb's goal for the book was to further disseminate his explanations of organic…
LiteraturePublications
Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection
By: Tian Zhu
| Published: Jun 10, 2009
Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) is an assisted reproductive technique (ART) initially developed by Dr. Gianpiero D. Palermo in 1993 to treat…
TechnologySperm Injections, IntracytoplasmicReproductionFertilization
Emma Wolverton (1889–1978)
By: James Walter Dennert
| Published: Aug 25, 2020
Emma Wolverton, also known as Deborah Kallikak, lived her entire life in an institution in New Jersey after psychologist Henry Goddard classified her…
PeoplePsychiatric hospitalsPeople with mental disabilities--Institutional carePsychology--HistoryPsychology--History--20th century
Leuprorelin as a Treatment for Endometriosis
By: Anna Guerrero, Emily Santora
| Published: Nov 30, 2019
Leuprolide acetate, or leuprorelin, is a manufactured drug that has been prescribed as a treatment for endometriosis, a medical condition in which…
EndometriosisEndometriumDrug utilizationDrugs--AdministrationUterus
Dorothy Andersen (1901–1963)
By: Reem Gerais
| Published: Jun 18, 2017
Dorothy Andersen studied cystic fibrosis in the United States during the early 1900s. In 1935, Andersen discovered lesions in the pancreas of an…
Celiac DiseaseCeliac disease in childrenPenicillin
Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805-1861)
By: Jesse Potestas
| Published: Feb 11, 2017
Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire studied anatomy and congenital abnormalities in humans and other animals in nineteenth century France. Under the…
TeratologyAnimals--AbnormalitiesAbnormalities, HumanNatural historyAnatomy
Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak's Telomere and Telomerase Experiments (1982-1989)
By: Zane Bartlett
| Published: Mar 24, 2015
Experiments conducted by Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak from 1982 to 1989 provided theories of how the ends of chromosomes,…
TelomereGreider, Carol W.Chromosome replicationTelomeraseDNA
Gordon Watkins Douglas (1921-2000)
By: Alexis Abboud
| Published: Sep 15, 2014
Gordon Watkins Douglas researched cervical cancer, breach delivery, and treatment of high blood pressure during pregnancy in the US during the…
GynecologyDiagnosis, NoninvasiveEmbryologyAbortionAbortion services