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Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860-1948)
By: Mark A. Ulett
| Published: Jun 29, 2010
Known by many for his wide-reaching interests and keen thinking, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson was one of Britain's leading scientific academics in the…
PeopleBiographyMorphology
Edward Stuart Russell (1887-1954)
By: Mark A. Ulett
| Published: Jun 29, 2010
Edward Stuart Russell was born 23 March 1887 to Helen Cockburn Young and the Reverend John N. Russell in Port Glasgow, Scotland. Friends and co-…
PeopleBiographyMorphologyhistoryphilosophy
Francis Maitland Balfour (1851-1882)
By: Mark A. Ulett
| Published: Jun 29, 2010
During the 1870s and early 1880s, the British morphologist Francis Maitland Balfour contributed in important ways to the budding field of…
BiographyEvolution
The Yale Embryo
By: Kaitlin Smith
| Published: Jun 28, 2010
In 1934 a fourteen-day-old embryo was discovered during a postmortem examination and became famous for being the youngest known human embryo specimen…
ReproductionSpecimensHuman Development
Osborne Overton Heard (1890-1983)
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 28, 2010
Osborne O. Heard was a noted Carnegie embryological model maker for the Department of Embryology at The Carnegie Institute of Washington (CIW),…
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A History of Embryology (1959), by Joseph Needham
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 28, 2010
In 1931 embryologist and historian Joseph Needham published a well-received three-volume treatise titled Chemical Embryology. The first four chapters…
LiteratureNeedham, Joseph, 1900-1995Publicationshistory
Reassessment of Carrel's Immortal Tissue Culture Experiments
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: Jun 28, 2010
In the 1910s, Alexis Carrel, a French surgeon and biologist, concluded that cells are intrinsically immortal. His claim was based on chick-heart…
ContextCarrel, Alexis, 1873-1944Tissue Culture TechniquesTissue cultureChicks
Benjamin Harrison Willier (1890-1972)
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 28, 2010
Benjamin Harrison Willier is considered one of the most versatile embryologists to have ever practiced in the US. His research spanned most of the…
TransplantationBiography
Carnegie Institution of Washington Department of Embryology
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 27, 2010
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 Washington
On Growth and Form (1917), by Sir D'Arcy Thompson
By: Mark A. Ulett
| Published: Jun 27, 2010
Of Sir D'Arcy Thompson's nearly 300 publications, the theoretical treatise On Growth and Form, first published in 1917, remains the principal work…
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