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History of the Monash IVF Research Program from 1971 to 1989

By: Whitney Alexandra Tuoti | Published: Sep 14, 2020

In 1971, a group of researchers founded the Monash IVF Research Program with the mission to discover how in vitro fertilization, or IVF, techniques…

OrganizationFertilization in VitroFertilization in vitro, HumanFertilization in vitro, Human--Moral and ethical aspectsMicropropagation

Genetics and IVF Institute, GIVF

By: Alysse Blight | Published: Feb 19, 2019

In 1984, human genetics and reproduction researcher and physician Joseph D. Schulman founded the Genetics and IVF Institute, an international…

OrganizationFertilization in VitroInfertility, FemaleFertilization in vitro, HumanFertilization in vitro, Human--Law and legislation

The Miracle of Life (1983), by NOVA

By: Inbar Maayan | Published: Nov 19, 2010

The most-watched NOVA documentary ever made and a revolution in the understanding of human development, The Miracle of Life (abbreviated Life)…

LiteratureReproductionHuman Development

Beadle and Ephrussi Show that Something Besides Eye Tissue Determines Eye Color in Fruit Flies

By: Amy Pribadi | Published: Oct 11, 2016

In the 1930s, George Beadle and Boris Ephrussi discovered factors that affect eye colors in developing fruit flies.

Fruit-fliesImaginal DisksGeneticsdevelopmentMetamorphosis, Biological

“Mesenchymal and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: General Insights and Clinical Perspectives” (2015), by Helena D. Zomer, Antanásio S. Vidane, Natalia G. Gonçalves, and Carlos E. Ambrósio

By: Alexis Darby | Published: Aug 04, 2021

In 2015, biologist Helena D. Zomer and colleagues published the review article “Mesenchymal and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: General Insights and…

LiteratureStem CellsEmbryonic Stem CellsStem Cell ResearchIps

Eclipse of Reason (1987)

By: Sepehr Abdi-Moradi | Published: Feb 11, 2017

Eclipse of Reason is a 1987 anti-abortion documentary film directed, filmed, and narrated by Bernard Nathanson, an obstetrician in the US. American…

LiteratureAbortionLate-term abortionPro-life movementFetus

Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945)

By: Mary E. Sunderland | Published: Sep 25, 2007

Although best known for his work with the fruit fly, for which he earned a Nobel Prize and the title "The Father of Genetics," Thomas Hunt Morgan's…

PeopleMorgan, Thomas Hunt, 1866-1945Genetics, ExperimentalNobel Prize winnersDrosophila melanogaster

Medical Vibrators for Treatment of Female Hysteria

By: Rainey Horwitz | Published: Feb 29, 2020

During the late 1800s through the early 1900s, physicians administered pelvic massages involving clitoral stimulation by early electronic vibrators…

Vibrators (Massage)VibratorsHysteriaHysteria--Early works to 1900Orgasm

"CRISPR /Cas9-mediated Gene Editing in Human Tripronuclear Zygotes" (2015), by Junjiu Huang et al.

By: Meilin Zhu | Published: Nov 08, 2017

In 2015, Junjiu Huang and his colleagues reported their attempt to enable CRISPR/cas 9-mediated gene editing in nonviable human zygotes for the first…

LiteratureDoudna, Jennifer A.Charpentier, Emmanuelle, 1968-Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic RepeatsCRISPR-Cas Systems