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“Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid” (1953), by James Watson and Francis Crick
By: Victoria Hernandez
| Published: Oct 31, 2019
In April 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published “Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure of Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid” or “A…
LiteratureDNAComplementary DNADNA ReplicationDeoxyribonucleic Acid
Multi-Fetal Pregnancy
By: Corinne DeRuiter
| Published: Jan 01, 2012
In humans, multi-fetal pregnancy occurs when a mother carries more than one fetus during the pregnancy. The most common multi-fetal pregnancy is…
ReproductionFetusHuman Development
The French Flag Model
By: Jack Resnik
| Published: May 19, 2011
The French flag model represents how embryonic cells receive and respond to genetic information and subsequently differentiate into patterns. Created…
ModelsGenetics
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
By: Katherine Brind'Amour
| Published: May 06, 2010
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs) are cells derived from non-pluripotent cells, such as adult somatic cells, that are genetically manipulated so…
LiteratureStem CellsRegeneration
American Eugenics Society (1926-1972)
By: Rachel Gur-Arie
| Published: Nov 22, 2014
The American Eugenics Society (AES) was established in the US by Madison Grant, Harry H. Laughlin, Henry Crampton, Irving Fisher, and Henry F.…
OrganizationsEugenicsHeredity, HumanHeredityInvoluntary Sterilization
Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer in Mammals (1938-2013)
By: Zane Bartlett
| Published: Nov 04, 2014
In the second half of the twentieth century, scientists learned how to clone organisms in some species of mammals. Scientists have applied somatic…
CloningCell nuclei--TransplantationSpemann, Hans, 1869-1941Genetic Engineering
Lynn Petra Alexander Sagan Margulis (1938-2011)
By: Dorothy Regan Haskett
| Published: Mar 23, 2014
Lynn Petra Alexander Sagan Margulis was an American biologist, whose work in the mid-twentieth century focused on cells living together in a mutually…
Eukaryotic cellsMitosissymbiosisMitochondriaMicroorganisms--Evolution
Craig C. Mello (1960- )
By: May Catherine
| Published: Nov 30, 2011
Craig C. Mello is an American developmental biologist and Nobel Laureate, who helped discover RNA interference (RNAi). Along with his colleague…
PeopleRNA InterferenceBiography
“The Science and Ethics of Making Part-Human Animals in Stem Cell Biology” (2006), by Jason Scott Robert
By: Alexis Darby
| Published: May 25, 2021
In 2006, bioethicist Jason Scott Robert published “The Science and Ethics of Making Part-Human Animals in Stem Cell Biology” in The FASEB Journal.…
LiteratureGeneticsbioethicsStem Cell ResearchStem Cells
David Baltimore (1938– )
By: Meilin Zhu
| Published: Dec 27, 2017
David Baltimore studied viruses and the immune system in the US during the twentieth century. In 1975, Baltimore was awarded the Nobel Prize in…
Baltimore, DavidDNAAcquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome