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Frank Rattray Lillie (1870-1947)

By: Karen Wellner | Published: Jul 22, 2009

Frank R. Lillie was born in Toronto, Canada, on 27 June 1870. His mother was Emily Ann Rattray and his father was George Waddell Little, an…

PeopleLillie, Frank Rattray, 1870-1947BiographyLaboratoriesCell Lineage

Stanley Paul Leibo (1937–2014)

By: Risa Aria Schnebly | Published: Feb 05, 2021

Stanley Paul Leibo studied the cryopreservation of embryos in the US in the twentieth century. Cryopreservation is a method of preserving biological…

Low temperature engineeringCryonicsScience and civilizationEmbryo transplantationCryotherapy

CRISPR Acquired Resistance Against Viruses (2007)

By: Meilin Zhu | Published: Nov 15, 2017

In 2007, Philippe Horvath and his colleagues explained how bacteria protect themselves against viruses at Danisco, a Danish food company, in Dangé-…

gene editingStreptococcus thermophilusvirusesBacteriaRNA

Life's Greatest Miracle (2001), by Julia Cort and NOVA

By: Inbar Maayan | Published: Nov 20, 2010

The Public Broadcasting Station (PBS) documentary Life's Greatest Miracle (abbreviated Miracle, available at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/miracle/…

LiteratureHuman DevelopmentReproductionMovies

“HPV in the Etiology of Human Cancer” (2006) by Nubia Muñoz, Xavier Castellsagué, Amy Berrington de González, and Lutz Gissmann

By: Maeen Arslan | Published: Jun 21, 2022

In 2006, the article “HPV in the Etiology of Human Cancer,” hereafter “HPV and Etiology,” by Nubia Muñoz, Xavier Castellsagué, Amy Berrington de…

LiteraturePapillomavirusesCervix uteri--CancerVaccine mandatesMouth--Cancer

Neonatal Jaundice

By: Arianna Bradley | Published: Feb 23, 2017

Neonatal jaundice is the yellow discoloration of the skin and eyes due to elevated bilirubin levels in the bloodstream of a newborn. Bilirubin is a…

Jaundice, NeonatalHyperbilirubinemia, NeonatalErythroblastosis FetalisPhototherapyChildren's Hospital Medical Center (Boston, Mass.)

Robert Geoffrey Edwards and Patrick Christopher Steptoe's Clinical Research in Human in vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer, 1969-1980

By: Lijing Jiang | Published: May 12, 2011

The biomedical accomplishment of human in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF-ET) took years to become the successful technique that…

ReproductionExperimentsFertilization

A plant genetically modified that accumulates Pb is especially promising for phytoremediation (2003), by Carmina Gisbert et al.

By: Ernest Nkansah-Dwamena | Published: Dec 30, 2014

In 2003, Carmina Gisbert and her research team produced a tobacco plant that could remove lead from soil. To do so, they inserted a gene from wheat…

PhytoremediationtobaccoLeadSoil Pollutioncadmium

Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (Élie Metchnikoff) (1845-1916)

By: Valerie Racine | Published: Jul 05, 2014

Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov studied phagocytes, immune function, and starfish embryos in Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.…

PhagocytesEmbryology, ExperimentalPhagocytosisEmbryologyImmunology

Infantile Autism: The Syndrome and Its Implications for a Neural Theory of Behavior (1964), by Bernard Rimland

By: Sean Cohmer | Published: May 23, 2014

Infantile Autism: The Syndrome and Its Implications for a Neural Theory of Behavior (hereafter Infantile Autism) is a book written by Bernard Rimland…

LiteratureAutism in childrenAutismAutism spectrum disordersChildren with autism spectrum disorders