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Cerebral Organoid as a Model System in the Study of Microcephaly
By: Dasia Garcia
| Published: May 12, 2017
Scientists use cerebral organoids, which are artificially produced miniature organs that represent embryonic or fetal brains and have many properties…
TechnologyMicrocephalyBrainNeuronsBrain--Diseases--Animal models
The Jackson Laboratory
By: Christina Raup
| Published: Jul 01, 2010
The Roscoe B. Jackson Laboratory, known commonly in the scientific field as the Jackson Laboratory, was founded by Clarence Cook Little in May 1929.…
OrganizationOrganizationsLaboratoriesMiceGenetics
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard (1942- )
By: May Catherine, Jack Resnik
| Published: Feb 16, 2012
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard studied how genes control embryonic development in flies and in fish in Europe during the twentieth and twenty-first…
DrosophilaEmbryologyGenesMorphogenesisRNA polymerases
Alfred Day Hershey (1908–1997)
By: Victoria Hernandez
| Published: Apr 29, 2019
During the twentieth century in the United States, Alfred Day Hershey studied phages, or viruses that infect bacteria, and experimentally verified…
Hershey, A. D. (Alfred Day), 1908-Bacteriophage lambdaPhage lambdaBacteriophages--GeneticsBacteriophages
Conrad Hal Waddington (1905-1975)
By: Adam R. Navis
| Published: Nov 08, 2007
Conrad Hal Waddington was an embryologist and theoretical biologist. His early experimental work investigated aspects of embryonic induction and the…
EpigenomicsEpigeneticsBiography
Susumu Ohno (1928–2000)
By: Devangana Shah
| Published: Jun 03, 2025
Susumu Ohno studied chromosome structure and evolution during the twentieth century in the United States. Ohno was one of the first researchers to…
Sequence Analysis, DNAGenes, DuplicateGene DuplicationBarr BodiesBiological Evolution
Fate Mapping Techniques
By: Corinne DeRuiter
| Published: Nov 19, 2010
For more than 2000 years, embryologists, biologists, and philosophers have studied and detailed the processes that follow fertilization. The…
TechnologyCell Lineage
John D. Gearhart
By: Ke Wu
| Published: Jan 19, 2011
John D. Gearhart is a renowned American developmental geneticist best known for leading the Johns Hopkins University research team that first…
PeopleStem CellsGeneticsBiography
Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome
By: Mary Drago
| Published: Jun 05, 2014
Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS) is a human disorder in which an individual's genetic sex (genotype) differs from that individual's observable…
AndrogensAndrogens--PathophysiologyIntersexualityIntersex peopleAndrogen-Insensitivity Syndrome
MicroSort
By: Alysse Blight
| Published: Jul 09, 2019
"MicroSort, developed in 1990 by the Genetics and IVF Institute, is a form of pre-conception sex selection technology for humans. Laboratories…
Technologyin vitroFertilization in vitro, HumanFertilization in VitroSperm donors