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The Effects of Gene Regulation on Aging in Caenorhabditis elegans (2003)
By: Dasia Garcia
| Published: Feb 16, 2017
In 2003, molecular biology and genetics researchers Coleen T. Murphy, Steven A. McCarroll, Cornelia I. Bargmann, Andrew Fraser, Ravi S. Kamath, Julie…
Caenorhabditis elegansCaenorhabditisInsulin-like growth factor-binding proteinsIGF-Binding ProteinsGenetic regulation
The Apgar Score (1953-1958)
By: Carolina J. Abboud
| Published: Feb 16, 2017
In 1952 Virginia Apgar, a physician at the Sloane Women’s Hospital in New York City, New York, created the Apgar score as a method of evaluating…
Apgar, Virginia, 1909-1974ObstetricsAnesthesiologySloane Hospital for Women (New York, N.Y.)Cesarean Section
Virginia Apgar (1909–1974)
By: Carolina J. Abboud
| Published: Feb 16, 2017
Virginia Apgar worked as an obstetrical anesthesiologist, administering drugs that reduce women’s pain during childbirth, in the US in the mid-…
Apgar, Virginia, 1909-1974Apgar ScorePregnancyObstetricsChildbirth
“Elective Induction of Labor” (1955), by Edward Bishop
By: Carolina J. Abboud
| Published: Feb 16, 2017
In 1955, obstetrician Edward Bishop, a physician specializing in childbirth, published the article “Elective Induction of Labor,” in which he…
LiteratureReproductionChildbirthLabor, Induced (Obstetrics)Obstetrics
The Infant Incubator in Europe (1860-1890)
By: Kelsey Locey
| Published: Feb 11, 2017
In the nineteenth century, obstetricians in Europe began to construct devices to incubate infants in increasingly controlled environments. The infant…
TechnologyPremature InfantsObstetricsMaternal and infant welfareIncubators (Pediatrics)
John Chassar Moir (1900–1977)
By: Dorothy Haskett, Patsy Ciardullo
| Published: Feb 11, 2017
John Chassar Moir lived in Scotland during the twentieth century and helped develop techniques to improve the health of pregnant women. Moir helped…
ObstetricsPregnancyErgot AlkaloidsHemorrhageVagina
Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805-1861)
By: Jesse Potestas
| Published: Feb 11, 2017
Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire studied anatomy and congenital abnormalities in humans and other animals in nineteenth century France. Under the…
TeratologyAnimals--AbnormalitiesAbnormalities, HumanNatural historyAnatomy
Acid Dissolution of Fossil Dinosaur Eggs
By: Madison Paige
| Published: Feb 11, 2017
Acid dissolution is a technique of removing a fossil from the surrounding rock matrix in which it is encased by dissolving that matrix with acid.…
TechnologypaleontologyPaleontological excavationsVertebrates, FossilEggs, Fossil
Margaret Ann Bulkley (James Barry) (1789−1865)
By: Sarah Foster
| Published: Feb 11, 2017
Margaret Ann Bulkley, under the male pseudonym James Barry, was one of the first female obstetricians in early nineteenth century British Empire. She…
Cesarean SectionUniversity of EdinburghSurgeryReproductive HealthIreland
Truman William Brophy (1848–1928)
By: Jillian Renee Kersten
| Published: Feb 11, 2017
Truman William Brophy developed a cleft palate surgical repair, later called the Brophy Operation, in the late nineteenth century US. The procedure…
Cleft PalateDental EducationAmerican Dental AssociationmalformationsBirth Defects