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California Proposition 71 (2004)
By: Ceara O'Brien
| Published: Apr 03, 2014
The California Stem Cell Research and Cures Act, also called Proposition 71, was a ballot initiative proposed by California voters in 2004 to…
LawStem cells--Research--Religious aspects--ChristianityStem cells--Research--Moral and ethical aspectsEmbryonic stem cells--Research--Law and legislationEmbryo Research
Seed Collection and Plant Genetic Diversity, 1900-1979
By: Marci Baranski
| Published: Nov 01, 2013
Farmers have long relied on genetic diversity to breed new crops, but in the early 1900s scientists began to study the importance of plant genetic…
ContextGermplasm resources, PlantGermplasm resources, Plant--StorageAgrobiodiversityCrops
Human Betterment Foundation (1928-1942)
By: Jill Briggs
| Published: Jul 10, 2013
In 1928 Ezra Seymour Gosney founded the non-profit Human Betterment Foundation (HBF) in Pasadena, California to support the research and publication…
OrganizationCaliforniaInvoluntary SterilizationSterilization (Birth control)Human reproduction
President George W. Bush's Announcement on Stem Cells, 9 August 2001
By: Samuel Philbrick
| Published: Nov 19, 2010
On 9 August 2001, US President George W. Bush gave an eleven-minute speech from his ranch in Crawford, Texas, on the ethics and fate of federal…
LiteratureStem CellsHuman Development
Thesis: Visualizing the Embryo: Establishing Procedures for Digital Image Production with the Embryo Project
By: Neekta Hamidi
| Published: Nov 27, 2020
Until 2013, the Embryo Project Encyclopedia had not presented images in articles due to the fact that there was no formal protocol for developing…
Digital imagesAuthorship--Style manualsGuideline AdherenceProtocol Compliance
Beadle's One Gene-One Enzyme Hypothesis
By: Amy Pribadi
| Published: Oct 12, 2016
Between 1934 and 1945, George Beadle developed a hypothesis that each gene within the chromosomes of organisms each produced one enzyme.
CellsGeneticsEnzymesGenesAmino Acids
Lewis Albert Sayre (1820–1900)
By: Matthew Tontonoz
| Published: Aug 09, 2025
Lewis Albert Sayre was an orthopedic surgeon who practiced medicine in New York City, New York, during the second half of the nineteenth century and…
Circumcision, MaleForeskinScoliosisSurgical CastsAmerican Medical Association
Lewis Madison Terman (1877–1956)
By: Cole Nichols
| Published: Feb 25, 2025
Lewis Madison Terman was a researcher and university professor who studied educational psychology and advocated for eugenics in the United States…
EugenicsBinet TestIntelligence testsReproductionIntelligence
Christine Jorgensen (1926–1989)
By: Lauren Hilton
| Published: Jun 26, 2024
Christine Jorgensen was a transgender woman and activist in the United States who lived during the twentieth century. She was one of the first US…
Transgender PersonsTransexualsTranssexualismGender IdentityGender
Treatment of Anemia during Pregnancy (1931), by Lucy Wills
By: Lauren Lynch
| Published: Apr 20, 2017
In 1931, physician Lucy Wills conducted a study of nutritional deficiencies that caused anemia in pregnant women in Bombay, India, later renamed…
AnemiaPernicious AnemiaFolic AcidAnemia in pregnancyErythrocytes