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Julia Barlow Platt's Embryological Observations on Salamanders' Cartilage (1893)
By: Karina Ramirez
| Published: Mar 06, 2017
In 1893, Julia Barlow Platt published her research on the origins of cartilage in the developing head of the common mudpuppy (Necturus maculosus)…
CartilageEmbryosGastrulationEmbryologyNecturus
Harry Hamilton Laughlin (1880-1943)
By: Rachel Gur-Arie
| Published: Dec 19, 2014
Harry Hamilton Laughlin helped lead the eugenics movement in the United States during the early twentieth century. The US eugenics movement of the…
Laughlin, Harry Hamilton, 1880-1943American Eugenics SocietyEugenicsDavenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944Eugenics--United States--History
Neurocristopathies
By: M. Elizabeth Barnes
| Published: Sep 19, 2014
Neurocristopathies are a class of pathologies in vertebrates, including humans, that result from abnormal expression, migration, differentiation, or…
CellsVertebratesdevelopmentCleft PalateAlbinism
Green Fluorescent Protein
By: Yawen Zou
| Published: Jun 11, 2014
Green fluorescent protein (GFP) is a protein in the jellyfish Aequorea Victoria that exhibits green fluorescence when exposed to light. The protein…
TechnologyGreen Fluorescent Proteins
Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen (1857-1927)
By: B. R. Erick Peirson
| Published: Nov 16, 2012
Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen studied plants and helped found the field of genetics, contributing methods and concepts to the study of heredity around the…
GeneticsHeredityPhenotypeGenotype-environment interactionEvolution
The Effects of Bisphenol A on Embryonic Development
By: Tristan Cooper-Roth
| Published: Sep 07, 2010
Bisphenol A (BPA) is an organic compound that was first synthesized by Aleksandr Dianin, a Russian chemist from St. Petersburg, in 1891. The chemical…
bisphenol AReproductionHormonesHuman Development
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…
LiteraturePublicationsForms
Ernest Everett Just (1883-1941)
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 16, 2010
Ernest Everett Just was an early twentieth century American experimental embryologist involved in research at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)…
FertilizationBiographyInvertebrates
Orchiopexy
By: Alison Lane
| Published: Oct 15, 2020
Orchiopexy, also known as orchidopexy, is a surgical technique that can correct cryptorchidism and was successfully performed for one of the first…
TechnologyTestis--CancerTestisTestis--DiseasesTestis--Surgery
Hermann Joseph Muller (1890-1967)
By: Kevin Gleason
| Published: May 25, 2017
Hermann Joseph Muller studied the effects of x-ray radiation on genetic material in the US during the twentieth century. At that time, scientists had…
Muller, H. J. (Hermann Joseph), 1890-1967X-raysRadiationGeneticsMutation