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The Carnegie Institution of Washington's (CIW) Embryology Department was opened in 1914 and remains one of six departments in the CIW. The…
OrganizationOrganizationsEducationCarnegie Institution of WashingtonThe Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, began in 1888 to offer opportunities for instruction and research in biological…
OrganizationsMarine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.)EmbryologyMarine laboratoriesWhitman, Charles Otis, 1842-1910Gavin de Beer was an English zoologist known for his contributions to evolution and embryology, in particular for showing the inadequacy of the germ…
PeopleBiographyEvolutionZoologyA pioneer in experimental embryology, Ross Granville Harrison made numerous discoveries that advanced biology. One of the most significant was his…
PeopleHarrison, Ross G. (Ross Granville), 1870-1959Tissue Culture TechniquesBiographyTissue cultureIn 2015, Mats Brännström and colleagues published “Livebirth after Uterus Transplantation” in the journal The Lancet. In “Livebirth after Uterus…
Infertility, Femaleorgan transplantationClinical trialIn vitro fertilizationPregnancyNeonatal respiratory distress syndrome, previously called hyaline membrane disease, is a respiratory disease affecting premature newborns. Neonatal…
Surface active agentsLungs--Blood-vessels--DiseasesRespiratory Distress Syndrome, AdultNeonatal emergenciesRespiratory therapy for newborn infantsIn 1995 and 1996, researchers at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, cloned mammals for the first time. Keith Campbell, Jim McWhir, William…
CloningClone CellsCloning, MolecularCloning, OrganismExperimentsIn A.Z. v. B.Z. (2000), the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in Boston, Massachusetts, affirmed a lower courtÕs decision, ruling that…
LawFrozen human embryosFertilization in VitroPregnancyEmbryosEdmund Beecher Wilson contributed to cell biology, the study of cells, in the US during the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth…
EmbryologyCellsCytologyHeredityEvolutionEmbryonic differentiation is the process of development during which embryonic cells specialize and diverse tissue structures arise. Animals are made…
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