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Hydrocephalus During Infancy

By: Alexandra Bohnenberger | Published: Mar 07, 2017

Hydrocephalus is a congenital or acquired disorder characterized by the abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid within the cavities of the brain…

HydrocephalusDandy, Walter Edward, 1886-1946Arnold-Chiari DeformityBrain--DiseasesInfants--Diseases

City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health (1983)

By: Malladi Lakshmeeramya, Lawton L. Jackson | Published: Nov 08, 2017

In the 1983 case City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health the US Supreme Court ruled that certain requirements of the city of Akron’s “…

LawAbortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortionBirth control clinicsContraception

Meselson, Stahl, and the Replication of DNA: A History of "The Most Beautiful Experiment in Biology" (2001), by Frederic Lawrence Holmes

By: Victoria Hernandez | Published: Jul 23, 2017

In 2001, Yale University Press published Frederic Lawrence Holmes' book, Meselson, Stahl, and the Replication of DNA: A History of "The Most…

LiteratureWatson, James D., 1928-Crick, Francis, 1916-2004Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.)DNA Replication

George Otto Gey (1899-1970)

By: Madeleine Zheng | Published: Mar 21, 2022

George Otto Gey was a scientist in the US who studied cells and cultivated the first continuous human cell line in 1951. Gey derived the cells for…

HeLa CellsCell MovementKB CellsCell CommunicationCulture Media, Conditioned

Apoptosis in Embryonic Development

By: Zane Bartlett | Published: Jun 08, 2017

Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is a mechanism in embryonic development that occurs naturally in organisms. Apoptosis is a different process…

ApoptosisGenetic regulationCaenorhabditis elegansCellsGerm Cells

"The Cell-Theory" (1853), by Thomas Henry Huxley

By: Samantha Hauserman | Published: Dec 12, 2013

The Cell-Theory was written by Thomas Henry Huxley in Britain and published in 1853 by The British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review. The twenty-…

LiteratureEpigeneticsEmbryologyHuxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895Cellular control mechanisms

"Control of Corneal Differentiation by Extracellular Materials" (1974), by Stephen Meier and Elizabeth D. Hay

By: Kevin Gleason | Published: Jun 19, 2017

In 1974, Elizabeth Dexter Hay and Stephen Meier in the US conducted an experiment that demonstrated that the extracellular matrix, the mesh-like…

Extracellular matrixCollagenCorneaEpitheliumEmbryos

Leonard Hayflick (1928- )

By: Zane Bartlett | Published: Jul 20, 2014

Leonard Hayflick studied the processes by which cells age during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the United States. In 1961 at the Wistar…

PeopleCellsCell populationsCell DeathApoptosis

"Cellular death in morphogenesis of the avian wing" (1962), by John W. Saunders Jr., et al.

By: Lijing Jiang | Published: Mar 07, 2014

In the early 1960s, John W. Saunders Jr., Mary T. Gasseling, and Lilyan C. Saunders in the US investigated how cells die in the developing limbs of…

Cell DeathChickens--EmbryosApoptosisExperiments