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By: Steve Elliott | Published: Jun 10, 2009

Jacques Loeb showed that scientists could achieve artificial parthenogenesis with some types of annelid worm eggs through a series of experiments in…

By: Steve Elliott | Published: Jun 10, 2009

Jacques Loeb experimented on embryos in Europe and the United States at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Among…

By: Mary E. Sunderland | Published: Jun 10, 2009

Translational developmental biology is a growing approach to studying biological phenomena that explicitly aims to develop medical therapies. When…

By: Andrew Danielson | Published: Jun 10, 2009

Patrick Christopher Steptoe was a British gynecologist responsible for major advances in gynecology and reproductive technology. Throughout his…

By: Katherine Brind'Amour | Published: Jun 10, 2009

The recent development of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and related technologies has caught the attention of scientists, activists,…

By: Cera R. Lawrence | Published: Jun 10, 2009

Charles Bonnet was a naturalist and philosopher in the mid eighteenth century. His most important contribution to embryology was the discovery of…

By: Mary E. Sunderland | Published: Jun 10, 2009

Dictyostelium discoideum is a cellular slime mold that serves as an important model organism in a variety of fields. Cellular slime molds have an…

By: Hilary Gilson | Published: Jun 10, 2009

Ricardo Hector Asch was born 26 October 1947 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to a lawyer and French professor, Bertha, and a doctor and professor of…

By: Mary E. Sunderland | Published: Jun 09, 2009

For Thomas Hunt Morgan clarity was of utmost importance. He was therefore frustrated with the many disparate, disconnected terms that were used to…

By: Steve Elliott | Published: Jun 08, 2009

Jacques Loeb published "Mechanistic Science and Metaphysical Romance" in 1915. His goal for the article was to outline his conception of mechanistic…