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Studies of Thalidomide's Effects on Rodent Embryos from 1962-2008
By: Joanna Yang, Chanapa Tantibanchachai
| Published: Mar 07, 2014
Thalidomide is a sedative drug introduced to European markets on 1 October 1957 after extensive testing on rodent embryos to ensure its safety. Early…
ContextTeratogenicity testingAbnormalities, HumanThalidomide--Side effectsThalidomide
Retinoids As Teratogens
By: Chanapa Tantibanchachai
| Published: Feb 28, 2014
Vitamin A (retinol) is an essential vitamin in the daily functioning of human beings that helps regulate cellular differentiation of epithelial…
RetinoidsVitamin A in the bodyTeratogenicity testingAbnormalities, HumanTeratogenic agents
Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002)
By: M. Elizabeth Barnes
| Published: Feb 18, 2014
Stephen Jay Gould studied snail fossils and worked at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts during the latter half of the twentieth century…
Punctuated equilibrium (Evolution)Spandrel beamsOntogenyPhylogenyFossils
Carl Richard Moore (1892-1955)
By: Mary Drago
| Published: Feb 18, 2014
Carl Richard Moore was a professor and researcher at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois who studied sex hormones in animals from 1916…
Moore, Carl R. (Carl Richard), 1892-1955Intersexuality in animalsIntersex peopleHormones, SexSex Differentiation
The US President's Council on Bioethics (2001-2009)
By: Ceara O'Brien
| Published: Feb 18, 2014
The US President's Council on Bioethics was an organization headquartered in Washington D.C. that was chartered to advise then US President George W…
OrganizationbioethicsAdvisory boardsStem CellsEmbryonic Stem Cells
Dizhou Tong (1902-1979)
By: Yawen Zou
| Published: Feb 18, 2014
Dizhou Tong, also called Ti Chou Tung, studied marine animals and helped introduce and organize experimental embryology in China during the twentieth…
Marine BiologyCell nuclei--TransplantationEmbryology, ExperimentalDevelopmental BiologyEmbryos
Endothelium
By: Kate MacCord
| Published: Jan 28, 2014
The endothelium is the layer of cells lining the blood vessels in animals. It weighs more than one kilogram in adult humans, and it covers a surface…
EndotheliumTissuesEpitheliumCellsVascular endothelium
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)
By: Erica O'Neil
| Published: Jan 28, 2014
The concept Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) refers to a set of birth defects that occur in children born to mothers who abused alcohol during pregnancy…
fetal alcohol syndromeAbnormalities, HumanCentral Nervous SystemalcoholPregnancy
William Bateson (1861-1926)
By: Samantha Hauserman
| Published: Jan 28, 2014
At the turn of the twentieth century, William Bateson studied organismal variation and heredity of traits within the framework of evolutionary theory…
GeneticsHeredityMendel, Gregor, 1822-1884EvolutionEmbryology
Stenberg v. Carhart (2000)
By: Mark Zhang
| Published: Jan 28, 2014
In Stenberg v. Carhart, the US Supreme Court ruled on 28 June 2000 that a Nebraska law banning partial birth abortions was unconstitutional. Though…
LawDilatation and extraction abortionAbortionPregnancyEmbryos