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In the Womb (2005), by Toby Mcdonald and National Geographic Channel

By: Inbar Maayan | Published: Nov 20, 2010

Written, produced, and directed by Toby Mcdonald, the 2005 National Geographic Channel film In the Womb uses the most recent technology to provide an…

LiteratureHuman DevelopmentReproductionMoviesFetus

Luc Antoine Montagnier (1932-2022)

By: Jarrett L. Joubert | Published: Nov 03, 2022

Luc Montagnier studied viruses, the immune system, and cancer in France during the second half of the twentieth century. In his early career,…

AIDS vaccinesAIDS (Disease)AIDS malignanciesHIV-positive personsHIV (Viruses)

Your Baby’s Sex: Now You Can Choose (1970), by David M. Rorvik and Landrum B. Shettles

By: Alysse Blight | Published: Oct 31, 2019

In the book Your Baby’s Sex: Now You Can Choose, David Michael Rorvik and Landrum Brewer Shettles describe methods that couples can use prior to and…

LiteratureSex PreselectionSex PredeterminationFamily PlanningGender

Edgar Allen (1892–1943)

By: Brendan Van Iten | Published: Jul 23, 2017

Edgar Allen identified and outlined the role of female sex hormones and discovered estrogen in the early 1900s in the US. In 1923, Allen, through his…

EstrogenHormones, SexOogenesisEstrusMenstrual Cycle

Percivall Pott (1714-1788)

By: Carolina Abboud | Published: May 31, 2017

Percivall Pott was a physician in England during the eighteenth century who identified soot as the cause of chimney sweeps' scrotal cancer, later…

Pott, Percivall, 1714-1788CancerChimney sweepsPott Puffy TumorCarcinoma, Squamous Cell

Karl Oskar Illmensee (1939–)

By: Cheryl Lancaster | Published: Feb 26, 2017

Karl Oskar Illmensee studied the cloning and reproduction of fruit flies, mice, and humans in the US and Europe during the twentieth and twenty-first…

CloningMolecular CloningClone CellsTwinsEmbryos

John Craig Venter (1946- )

By: Tito Carvalho | Published: May 06, 2014

John Craig Venter helped map the genomes of humans, fruitflies, and other organisms in the US in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and he helped…

Nucleotide sequenceVenter, J. CraigCelera GenomicsExpressed Sequence TagsHaemophilus influenzae

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

Bernard Rimland (1928-2006)

By: Sean Cohmer | Published: May 03, 2014

Bernard Rimland studied autism in children in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century. His early research in the 1950s and into…

AutismAutism spectrum disordersAutism in children

United States v. University Hospital (1984)

By: Jack Resnik | Published: May 11, 2011

The US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals' 1984 decision United States v. University Hospital, State University Hospital of New York at Stony Brook set a…

LawCongenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and AbnormalitiesReproductionCongenital Disorders