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Robert Geoffrey Edwards's Study of in vitro Mammalian Oocyte Maturation, 1960 to 1965
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: Aug 18, 2014
In a series of experiments between 1960 and 1965, Robert Geoffrey Edwards discovered how to make mammalian egg cells, or oocytes, mature outside of a…
Edwards, R. G. (Robert Geoffrey), 1925-2013Fertilization in VitroIn Vitro Oocyte Maturation TechniquesOocytesLuteinizing Hormone
"Cellular death in morphogenesis of the avian wing" (1962), by John W. Saunders Jr., et al.
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: Mar 07, 2014
In the early 1960s, John W. Saunders Jr., Mary T. Gasseling, and Lilyan C. Saunders in the US investigated how cells die in the developing limbs of…
Cell DeathChickens--EmbryosApoptosisExperiments
Alexis Carrel's Immortal Chick Heart Tissue Cultures (1912-1946)
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: Jul 03, 2012
In an effort to develop tissue culture techniques for long-term tissue cultivation, French surgeon and biologist Alexis Carrel, and his associates,…
Carrel, Alexis, 1873-1944Tissue cultureCellsGerm CellsEmbryos
"On the Permanent Life of Tissues outside of the Organism" (1912), by Alexis Carrel
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: May 06, 2012
'On the Permanent Life of Tissues outside of the Organism' reports Alexis Carrel's 1912 experiments on the maintenance of tissue in culture media. At…
Tissue cultureStem CellsStem cells--ResearchEmbryologyGerm Cells
Zhang Lizhu (1921- )
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: Aug 16, 2011
Zhang Lizhu is a Chinese gynecologist and researcher. For most of her career, she worked in the Peking Medical College Third Hospital, renamed in…
PeopleReproductionBiographyFertilization
Robert Geoffrey Edwards and Patrick Christopher Steptoe's Clinical Research in Human in vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer, 1969-1980
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: May 12, 2011
The biomedical accomplishment of human in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF-ET) took years to become the successful technique that…
ReproductionExperimentsFertilization
China's First Baby Conceived through In Vitro Fertilization-Embryonic Transfer, by Zhang Lizhu's Research Team
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: Apr 27, 2011
On 10 March 1988, China's first baby conceived through human in vitro fertilization (IVF) and embryo transfer (ET), commonly referred to as a test-…
ReproductionExperimentsFertility
"Programmed Cell Death-II. Endocrine Potentiation of the Breakdown of the Intersegmental Muscles of Silkmoths" (1964), by Richard A. Lockshin and Carroll M. Williams
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: Apr 27, 2011
Richard A. Lockshin's 1963 PhD dissertation on cell death in insect metamorphosis was conducted under the supervision of Harvard insect physiologist…
LiteratureExperimentsPublicationsSilkwormsHormones
China's One-Child Policy
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: Mar 31, 2011
In September 1979, China's Fifth National People's Congress passed a policy that encouraged one-child families. Following this decision from the…
ContextethicsReproductionFertilityGovernment
Robert Geoffrey Edwards's Study of Fertilization of Human Oocytes Matured in vitro, 1965 to 1969
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: Mar 10, 2011
Robert Geoffrey Edwards, a British developmental biologist at University of Cambridge, began exploring human in vitro fertilization (IVF) as a way to…
Fertilization in VitroExperimentsReproductionFertilizationOocytes