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Charles Bonnet (1720-1793)
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…
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Translational Developmental Biology
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…
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Dictyostelium discoideum
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…
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Ricardo Hector Asch (1947- )
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…
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Adolf Ziegler
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 10, 2009
The scientific field of embryology experienced great growth in scope and direction in Germany from approximately 1850 to 1920. During this time,…
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Susceptibility Assay
By: Mary E. Sunderland
| Published: Jun 10, 2009
Charles Manning Child designed an experimental test, the susceptibility assay, to measure the effects of different toxins on developmental processes…
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Susceptibility Assay
By: Mary E. Sunderland
| Published: Jun 10, 2009
Charles Manning Child designed an experimental test, the susceptibility assay, to measure the effects of different toxins on developmental processes…
TechnologyChild, Charles Manning, 1869-1954Ovadifferentiation
"Further Experiments on Artificial Parthenogenesis and the Nature of the Process of Fertilization" (1900), by Jacques Loeb
By: Steve Elliott
| Published: Jun 10, 2009
Jacques Loeb broadened and corrected his earlier claims concerning artificial parthenogenesis in sea urchins in a series of experiments in 1900. He…
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"Experiments on Artificial Parthenogenesis in Annelids (Chaetopterus) and the Nature of the Process of Fertilization" (1901), by Jacques Loeb
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…
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Jacques Loeb (1859-1924)
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…
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