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San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research
By: Karen Love
| Published: Jun 12, 2017
The San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research (SDZICR) in San Diego, California, is a research organization that works to generate, use, and…
OrganizationpreservationGeneticsEndangered SpeciesDNA
Intraspecies Chimeras Produced in Laboratory Settings (1960-1975)
By: Sarah Taddeo
| Published: Nov 25, 2014
When cells-but not DNA-from two or more genetically distinct individuals combine to form a new individual, the result is called a chimera. Though…
ContextChimerismEmbryosEmbryonic Stem CellsMosaicism
Hanging Drop Tissue Culture
By: Adam R. Navis
| Published: Nov 08, 2007
The hanging drop tissue culture is a technique utilized in embryology and other fields to allow growth that would otherwise be restricted by the flat…
TechnologyTissue cultureTissue Culture Techniques
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
Hwang Woo-suk's Use of Human Eggs for Research 2002-2005
By: Anne Safiya Clay
| Published: Aug 12, 2014
Hwang Woo-suk, a geneticist in South Korea, claimed in Science magazine in 2004 and 2005 that he and a team of researchers had for the first time…
ContextbioethicsHuman cloning--Research--Law and legislationInformed consent (Medical law)Oocyte Donation
Embryonic Differentiation in Animals
By: Sarah Ly
| Published: Mar 03, 2011
Embryonic differentiation is the process of development during which embryonic cells specialize and diverse tissue structures arise. Animals are made…
differentiation
Dickey-Wicker Amendment, 1996
By: Megan Kearl
| Published: Aug 27, 2010
The Dickey-Wicker Amendment is an amendment attached to the appropriations bills for the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and…
LawbioethicsHuman Development
Effects of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure on Cerebellum Development
By: Erica O'Neil
| Published: Sep 06, 2010
Prenatal exposure to alcohol (ethanol) results in a continuum of physical, neurological, behavioral, and learning defects collectively grouped under…
fetal alcohol syndromeReproductionHuman Development
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
“Part-Human Chimeras: Worrying the Facts, Probing the Ethics” (2007), by Françoise Baylis and Jason Scott Robert
By: Alexis Darby
| Published: Jun 19, 2021
In 2007, Françoise Baylis and Jason Scott Robert published “Part-Human Chimeras: Worrying the Facts, Probing the Ethics” in The American Journal of…
LiteratureChimerismNeuronsChimeraGenetics