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“Fate of the Foreskin: A Study of Circumcision” (1949) by Douglas Gairdner

By: Matthew Tontonoz | Published: Aug 09, 2025

In 1949, Douglas Gairdner, a pediatrician in Cambridge, England, published “Fate of the Foreskin: A Study of Circumcision,” hereafter, “Fate of the…

Circumcision, MaleForeskinHPV-31PhimosisForeskin--Surgery
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Ectogenesis as a Theme in The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution (1970), by Shulamith Firestone

By: Aubrey Pinteric | Published: Aug 08, 2025

In 1970, Shulamith Firestone, a self-described radical feminist and writer, published The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution,…

FertilityEctogenesisReproductive technologyFeminism and scienceFeminism in the press
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“Human Organoids: Tools for Understanding Biology and Treating Diseases” (2020), by Frans Schutgens and Hans Clevers

By: Aida Movahed | Published: Aug 08, 2025

In 2020, Frans Schutgens and Hans Clevers published “Human Organoids: Tools for Understanding Biology and Treating Diseases,” hereafter “Human…

OrganoidsCell Culture Techniques, Three DimensionalPrimary Cell Cultureinduced pluripotent stem cellsAdult Stem Cells
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“Human Acute Myeloid Leukemia Is Organized as a Hierarchy That Originates from a Primitive Hematopoietic Cell” (1997), by Dominique Bonnet and John E. Dick

By: Akaash Surendra | Published: Aug 08, 2025

In the 1990s, John E. Dick and Dominique Bonnet, researchers at the University of Toronto, in Toronto, Ontario, investigated how a blood cancer…

Leukemia, Myeloid, AcuteStem Cell ResearchAcute myeloid leukemiaStem CellsCarcinogenesis
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Sanger Sequencing

By: Tea Zawilak | Published: Aug 08, 2025

Sanger sequencing is a laboratory method that scientists use to determine the sequence of nucleotides within a piece of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA…

Sequence Analysis, DNAGenomicsPolymerase chain reactionNucleotide sequenceGenetics
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The Tuskegee Syphilis Study (1932–1972)

By: Sabrin Mohamed | Published: Aug 07, 2025

In 1932, the United States Public Health Service, or USPHS, began the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, initially known as the Tuskegee Study of Untreated…

SyphilisTuskegee Syphilis StudyInformed ConsentBlack or African AmericanSyphilis--Research--United States
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Ben A. Barres (1954–2017)

By: Aida Movahed | Published: Aug 06, 2025

Ben Barres researched neurobiology during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries as a professor at Stanford University School of…

Neurodegenerative DiseasesNeurogliaOligodendrogliaOligodendrocyte Precursor CellsBrain
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Protein Information Resource

By: Nicole Brewer | Published: Aug 06, 2025

The Protein Information Resource, or PIR, is an online, publicly available resource that contains databases of protein sequences and computer…

ProteinsComputational BiologyDatabases, ProteinBioinformaticsAmino Acid Sequence
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American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona (1956– )

By: Manar Hajja | Published: Aug 06, 2025

The American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, or ACLU of Arizona, is an organization that protects individual liberties through support for…

Civil rightsReproductive RightsAbortion, LegalWomen--ArizonaConstitutional law
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Martin John Evans (1941– )

By: Alexander Sastokas | Published: Aug 05, 2025

Sir Martin John Evans researched developmental biology in the United Kingdom during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He was among the…

Knockout MiceStem Cell ResearchDevelopmental BiologyP53 geneNobel Prize winners