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Life Magazine's 1965 cover story "Drama of Life Before Birth" featured photographs of embryos and fetuses taken by Swedish photojournalist Lennart…
LiteratureFetusPublicationsReproductionHuman DevelopmentEdward Stuart Russell was born 23 March 1887 to Helen Cockburn Young and the Reverend John N. Russell in Port Glasgow, Scotland. Friends and co-…
PeopleBiographyMorphologyhistoryphilosophyOn 2 December 2007, Science published a report on creating human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells from human somatic cells: "Induced Pluripotent…
LiteratureStem CellsPublicationsSomatic cellsKnown by many for his wide-reaching interests and keen thinking, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson was one of Britain's leading scientific academics in the…
PeopleBiographyMorphologyDuring the 1870s and early 1880s, the British morphologist Francis Maitland Balfour contributed in important ways to the budding field of…
BiographyEvolutionIn 1934 a fourteen-day-old embryo was discovered during a postmortem examination and became famous for being the youngest known human embryo specimen…
ReproductionSpecimensHuman DevelopmentIn the 1910s, Alexis Carrel, a French surgeon and biologist, concluded that cells are intrinsically immortal. His claim was based on chick-heart…
ContextCarrel, Alexis, 1873-1944Tissue Culture TechniquesTissue cultureChicksOsborne O. Heard was a noted Carnegie embryological model maker for the Department of Embryology at The Carnegie Institute of Washington (CIW),…
PeopleCarnegie Institution of WashingtonBiographyModelsIn 1931 embryologist and historian Joseph Needham published a well-received three-volume treatise titled Chemical Embryology. The first four chapters…
LiteratureNeedham, Joseph, 1900-1995PublicationshistoryBenjamin Harrison Willier is considered one of the most versatile embryologists to have ever practiced in the US. His research spanned most of the…
TransplantationBiography