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The Biological Bulletin
By: Jane Maienschein
| Published: Oct 24, 2008
From 1886 to 1889 Charles Otis Whitman was director of the Allis Lake Laboratory in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The lab was established by Edward Phelps…
Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.)PublicationsLaboratories
Arizona State University Embryo Project Photograph Collections
By: Jane Maienschein
| Published: Oct 24, 2008
In the 1970s Stanford University Embryologist Harold Heath sent a box of photographs to Frederick B. Churchill, who was a Professor in the History…
Regnier de Graaf (1641-1673)
By: Ellen M. DuPont
| Published: Sep 30, 2008
Regnier de Graaf, a Dutch physician and anatomist, was born 30 July 1641 in Schoonhoven, the Netherlands. Though he published papers on both…
PeopleReproductionBiography
Center for Reproductive Health (1986-1995)
By: Hilary Gilson
| Published: Sep 30, 2008
The Center for Reproductive Health was a fertility clinic run by a partnership of world-renowned fertility specialists from 1986 to 1995. The Center…
OrganizationReproductive RightsOrganizationsReproductionbioethics
De Formatione Ovi et Pulli (1621), by Girolamo Fabrici
By: Hilary Gilson
| Published: Sep 30, 2008
The embryological treatise De formatione ovi et pulli (On the Formation of the Egg and of the Chick) was written by anatomist and embryologist…
LiteraturePublicationsOvaAnatomy
Gamete Intra-Fallopian Transfer (GIFT)
By: Hilary Gilson
| Published: Sep 26, 2008
Various techniques constitute assisted reproduction, one of which is gamete intra-fallopian transfer (GIFT). The first example of GIFT involved…
TechnologyReproduction
Nicolaas Hartsoeker (1656-1725)
By: Cera R. Lawrence
| Published: Sep 26, 2008
Nicolaas Hartsoeker, a Dutch astronomer, optics manufacturer, and naturalist, was born 26 March 1656 in Gouda, Netherlands, and died 10 December 1725…
PeopleHartsoeker, Nicolas, 1656-1725SpermatozoaBiographySperm
Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777)
By: Cera R. Lawrence
| Published: Sep 22, 2008
Victor Albrecht von Haller was an 18th century scientist who did extensive work in the life sciences, including anatomy and physiology, botany, and…
OvumOvaFetus
James David Ebert (1921-2001)
By: Sheraden Seward
| Published: Sep 12, 2008
James David Ebert studied the developmental processes of chicks and of viruses in the US during the twentieth century. He also helped build and grow…
PeopleBiographyCarnegie Institution of WashingtonLaboratories
Marcello Malpighi (1646-1694)
By: Cera R. Lawrence
| Published: Sep 12, 2008
Marcello Malpighi studied chick embryos with microscopes in Italy during the seventeenth century. Trained as a medical doctor, he was among the first…
MicroscopyHistologyChick Embryo