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Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564)
By: Nicole Erjavic
| Published: Jan 10, 2018
Andreas Vesalius, also called Andries van Wesel, studied anatomy during the sixteenth century in Europe. Throughout his career, Vesalius thoroughly…
AnatomyPhysiologyHuman Dissection
The Dalkon Shield
By: Rainey Horwitz
| Published: Jan 10, 2018
The Dalkon Shield was an intrauterine contraceptive device (IUD) that women used in the early 1970s and 1980s. Produced by the A.H. Robins Company in…
TechnologyDalkon Shield (Intrauterine contraceptive)Intrauterine contraceptivesCopper intrauterine contraceptivesContraceptives
Experiments on the Reproductive Costs of a Pure Capital Breeder, the Children’s Python (Antaresia childreni) (2013), by Olivier Lourdais, Sophie Lorioux, and Dale F. DeNardo
By: Brittany Kaminsky
| Published: Jan 03, 2018
In 2013, Olivier Lourdais, Sophie Lorioux, and Dale DeNardo conducted a study on the impact of the reproductive effort on the muscle size and the…
Snakes--PhysiologyPythonsVitellogenesisSnakes--ReproductionEggs--Incubation
“Of Pregnancy and Progeny” (1980), by Norbert Freinkel
By: Blaise Castagnetti
| Published: Jan 03, 2018
Norbert Freinkel’s lecture Of Pregnancy and Progeny was published by the American Diabetes Association’s journal Diabetes in December of 1980. In the…
LiteraturePeters, Rudolph Albert, SirIngbar, Sidney H.American Diabetes AssociationDiabetes Mellitus
The Debate over DNA Replication Before the Meselson-Stahl Experiment (1953–1957)
By: Victoria Hernandez
| Published: Jan 03, 2018
Between 1953 and 1957, before the Meselson-Stahl experiment verified semi-conservative replication of DNA, scientists debated how DNA replicated. In…
ChromosomesCalifornia Institute of TechnologyCold Spring Harbor LaboratoryDNA Replication
David Hunter Hubel (1926–2013)
By: Dina A. Lienhard
| Published: Jan 03, 2018
David Hunter Hubel studied the development of the visual system and how the brain processes visual information in the US during the twentieth century…
Hubel, David H.Kuffler, Stephen W.Wiesel, Torsten N.Johns Hopkins Medical SchoolHarvard Medical School
"RNA-Guided Human Genome Engineering via Cas 9" (2013), by Prashant Mali, Luhan Yang, Kevin M. Esvelt, John Aach, Marc Guell, James E. DiCarlo, Julie E. Norville, and George M. Church
By: Meilin Zhu
| Published: Dec 27, 2017
In 2013, George Church and his colleagues at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts published RNA-Guided Human Genome Engineering via Cas 9,…
Literaturegene editingTranscription Activator-Like Effector NucleasesscFV green fluorescent protein, recombinantClustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats
David Baltimore (1938– )
By: Meilin Zhu
| Published: Dec 27, 2017
David Baltimore studied viruses and the immune system in the US during the twentieth century. In 1975, Baltimore was awarded the Nobel Prize in…
Baltimore, DavidDNAAcquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Ponseti's Treatment for Congenital Clubfoot (1963)
By: Katherine Gandee
| Published: Dec 27, 2017
In 1963, Ignacio Ponseti and Eugene Smoley experimentally determined an effective and minimally invasive method of treating congenital clubfoot.…
ClubfootFoot--AbnormalitiesOrthopedicsCongenital Talipes EquinovarusClubfoot, Congenital
Roger Sperry’s Split Brain Experiments (1959–1968)
By: Dina A. Lienhard
| Published: Dec 27, 2017
In the 1950s and 1960s, Roger Sperry performed experiments on cats, monkeys, and humans to study functional differences between the two hemispheres…
Split brainBrain--Localization of functionsCorpus callosumBrain MappingSplit-Brain Procedure