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"Limitations in Abortion Legislation: A Comparative Study" (2007), by Orli Lotan
By: Inbar Maayan
| Published: Nov 20, 2010
Written by Orli Lotan on behalf of the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) Center for Research and Information, "Limitations in Abortion Legislation: A…
LiteraturePublicationsReproductionAbortionbioethics
"Generation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells without Myc from Mouse and Human Fibroblasts" (2007), by Masato Nakagawa et al.
By: Samuel Philbrick
| Published: Nov 20, 2010
In November 2007, Masato Nakagawa, along with a number of other researchers including Kazutoshi Takahashi, Keisuke Okita, and Shinya Yamanaka,…
LiteratureStem CellsPublicationsExperimentsMice
On the Generation of Animals, by Aristotle
By: Cera R. Lawrence
| Published: Oct 02, 2010
Aristotle's On the Generation of Animals is referred to in Latin as De Generatione animalium. As with many of Aristotle's writings, the exact date of…
LiteratureReproductionPublicationsphilosophy
"Derivation of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Cultured Human Primordial Germ Cells" (1998), by John Gearhart et al.
By: Ke Wu
| Published: Sep 14, 2010
In November 1998, two independent reports were published concerning the first isolation of pluripotent human stem cells, one of which was "Derivation…
LiteratureStem CellsPublications
"Generation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Using Recombinant Proteins" (2009), by Hongyan Zhou et al.
By: Samuel Philbrick
| Published: Aug 30, 2010
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are studied carefully by scientists not just because they are a potential source of stem cells that…
LiteratureStem CellsPublicationsRegeneration
Birth Control or the Limitation of Offspring (1936), by William J. Robinson
By: Angel Lopez
| Published: Jul 01, 2010
Birth Control or the Limitation of Offspring was written by American eugenics and birth control advocate William J. Robinson. First published in 1916…
LiteratureContraceptionPublicationsReproduction
Birth without Violence (1975), by Frederick Leboyer
By: Olivia Conley
| Published: Jun 30, 2010
In Birth without Violence (1975), French obstetrician Frederick Leboyer describes in poetic form the possible perceptions and feelings of embryos and…
LiteratureHuman DevelopmentPublicationsReproductionFetus
"Drama of Life Before Birth" (1965), by Life Magazine and Lennart Nilsson
By: Olivia Conley
| Published: Jun 30, 2010
Life Magazine's 1965 cover story "Drama of Life Before Birth" featured photographs of embryos and fetuses taken by Swedish photojournalist Lennart…
LiteratureFetusPublicationsReproductionHuman Development
"Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Somatic Cells" (2007), by Junying Yu et al.
By: Ke Wu
| Published: Jun 29, 2010
On 2 December 2007, Science published a report on creating human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells from human somatic cells: "Induced Pluripotent…
LiteratureStem CellsPublicationsSomatic cells
A History of Embryology (1959), by Joseph Needham
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 28, 2010
In 1931 embryologist and historian Joseph Needham published a well-received three-volume treatise titled Chemical Embryology. The first four chapters…
LiteratureNeedham, Joseph, 1900-1995Publicationshistory