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Amniocentesis
By: Katherine Brind'Amour
| Published: Jun 04, 2008
Amniocentesis is a test used for prenatal diagnosis of inherited diseases, Rh incompatibility, neural tube defects, and lung maturity. Normally…
AmniocentesisReproductionFetus
Status and Value Term Descriptions
By: Brock Heathcotte
| Published: May 09, 2008
Descriptions of terms utilized in law articles. Terms like probable, questionable, and doubtful are defined and values of case precedents are…
Law
Morphogenesis
By: Mary E. Sunderland
| Published: May 09, 2008
The term morphogenesis generally refers to the processes by which order is created in the developing organism. This order is achieved as…
Morphogenesisdifferentiation
John Tyler Bonner (1920- )
By: Mary E. Sunderland
| Published: May 09, 2008
The establishment and growth of developmental-evolutionary biology owes a great debt to the work of John Tyler Bonner. Bonner's studies of cellular…
PeopleDictyosteliidaBiographyMorphogenesisMulticellularity
Morphogenesis: An Essay on Development (1952), by John Tyler Bonner
By: Mary E. Sunderland
| Published: May 09, 2008
Throughout his long and fruitful career John Tyler Bonner has made great strides in understanding basic issues of embryology and developmental-…
LiteratureMorphogenesisPublications
Slime Mold Video
By: Mary E. Sunderland
| Published: May 02, 2008
This video is composed of a sequence of films created by John Tyler Bonner in the 1940s to show the life cycle of the cellular slime mold…
DictyosteliidaMovies
Alexis Carrel (1873-1944)
By: Adam R. Navis
| Published: Feb 29, 2008
Alexis Carrel was a doctor and researcher who studied tissue cultures. He continued Ross Granville Harrison's research and produced many…
Tissue Culture TechniquesBiographyTissue culture
Johannes Holtfreter (1901-1992)
By: Adam R. Navis
| Published: Feb 29, 2008
Johannes Holtfreter made important discoveries about the properties of the organizer discovered by Hans Spemann. Although he spent much time away…
Organizers, EmbryonicBiographyFrogs
Father Frank Pavone (1959- )
By: Katherine Brind'Amour
| Published: Feb 29, 2008
Father Frank Pavone, a key proponent of the Roman Catholic Church's pro-life movement, has devoted his life's work to ending abortion, euthanasia,…
PeoplereligionReproductionBiographyCatholicism
Free Hospital for Women Scrapbook by Harvard University Library
By: Kimberly A. Buettner
| Published: Nov 13, 2007
This scrapbook is part of the Harvard University Library's collection on "Working Women, 1800-1930," which is itself part of the Open Collections…
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