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Jeffrey Keenan (1961- )
By: Nicole Lopez
| Published: Jun 17, 2010
Jeffrey Keenan is the Director of the Southeastern Center for Fertility and Reproductive Medicine and the main developer behind the National Embryo…
PeopleReproductive Techniques, AssistedReproductionBiographyFertility
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1834-1919)
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 16, 2010
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel was a prominent comparative anatomist and active lecturer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries…
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José Pedro Balmaceda (1948- )
By: Hilary Gilson
| Published: Jun 15, 2010
José Pedro Balmaceda was born 22 August 1948 in Santiago, Chile. His mother Juanita owned a women's boutique in the city and his father José was a…
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Hans Spemann (1869-1941)
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 15, 2010
Hans Spemann was an experimental embryologist best known for his transplantation studies and as the originator of the "organizer" concept. One of his…
PeopleSpemann, Hans, 1869-1941TransplantationBiography
Pope Pius XII (1876-1958)
By: Katherine Brind'Amour
| Published: Jun 10, 2010
Pope Pius XII was born Eugenio Maria Giuseppi Giovanni Pacelli on 2 March 1876 in Rome, Italy, to Virginia and Filippo Pacelli. Known for his oft-…
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Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado (1964- )
By: Mary E. Sunderland
| Published: Jun 10, 2010
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado is a Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the University of Utah School of Medicine and is also a Howard Hughes…
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Sergio Cereceda Stone (1942- )
By: Hilary Gilson
| Published: Jun 07, 2010
Sergio Cereceda Stone was born 16 April 1942 in the coastal city of Valparaiso, Chile. Stone's mother Luz was a housewife and caretaker for Sergio…
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Gavin Rylands de Beer (1899-1972)
By: Megan Kearl
| Published: Jun 02, 2010
Gavin de Beer was an English zoologist known for his contributions to evolution and embryology, in particular for showing the inadequacy of the germ…
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Otto Mangold (1891-1962)
By: Megan Kearl
| Published: Jun 02, 2010
Otto Mangold was an early twentieth century embryologist who specialized in the development of amphibian embryos. A major emphasis of his research…
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John Philip Trinkaus (1918-2003)
By: Ellen M. DuPont
| Published: May 31, 2010
John Philip Trinkaus studied the processes of cell migration and gastrulation, especially in teleost fish, in the US during the twentieth century.…
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