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Leon Richard Kass (1939- )
By: Samuel Philbrick
| Published: Nov 17, 2010
A PhD and medical doctor turned ethicist, Leon Kass calls himself an unlicensed humanist. Throughout his unique career he has sought to impact others…
PeoplebioethicsethicsReproductionBiography
Embryo Blotting Paper Models
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Nov 17, 2010
Anatomical models have always been a mainstay of descriptive embryology. As the training of embryologists grew in the late 1800s, so too did the need…
TechnologyModelsEducation
Robert Alan Good (1922-2003)
By: Angel Lopez
| Published: Nov 16, 2010
Robert Alan Good was an American physician and scientific researcher who explored the cellular mechanisms of immunity. His research and discoveries…
PeopleBiographyImmunology
VACTERL Association
By: Corinne DeRuiter
| Published: Oct 29, 2010
VACTERL association is a term applied to a specific group of abnormalities involving structures derived from the mesoderm. Although the defects of…
VATER syndromeVACTERL associationCongenital Disorders
Tay-Sachs Disease
By: Kristin Kelley
| Published: Oct 29, 2010
In 1881 British opthalmologist Warren Tay made an unusual observation. He reported a cherry-red spot on the retina of a one-year-old patient, a…
Tay-Sachs DiseaseCongenital DisordersHeredity
Tissue Engineering
By: Angel Lopez
| Published: Oct 29, 2010
Tissue engineering is a field of regenerative medicine that integrates the knowledge of scientists, physicians, and engineers into the construction…
Tissue EngineeringmedicineRegeneration
Stem Cells
By: Ke Wu
| Published: Oct 29, 2010
According to the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the standard American source on stem cell research, three characteristics of stem cells…
Stem Cells
Effect of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure on Radial Glial Cells
By: Erica O'Neil
| Published: Oct 20, 2010
Prenatal alcohol (ethanol) exposure can have dramatic effects on the development of the central nervous system (CNS), including morphological…
fetal alcohol syndromeReproductionCongenital DisordersFetus
Role of Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) in Alcohol-Induced Craniofacial Abnormalities
By: Erica O'Neil
| Published: Oct 20, 2010
Prenatal exposure to alcohol (ethanol) results in a continuum of physical and neurological developmental abnormalities that vary depending on the…
fetal alcohol syndromeCongenital DisordersFetus
Neural Tube Defects (NTD): Folic Acid and Pregnancy
By: Tristan Cooper-Roth
| Published: Oct 20, 2010
In the US, one in 1000 births is affected by neural tube defects (NTD). A neural tube defect is a birth defect involving the malformation of body…
Neural Tube DefectsReproductionCongenital DisordersHuman Development