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Human Betterment Foundation (1928-1942)
By: Jill Briggs
| Published: Jul 10, 2013
In 1928 Ezra Seymour Gosney founded the non-profit Human Betterment Foundation (HBF) in Pasadena, California to support the research and publication…
OrganizationCaliforniaInvoluntary SterilizationSterilization (Birth control)Human reproduction
Johann Gregor Mendel (1822–1884)
By: Sarah Walls
| Published: Jan 13, 2022
Johann Gregor Mendel studied patterns of trait inheritance in plants during the nineteenth century.
BotanyMendel's lawGenetics
Edward Drinker Cope's Law of Acceleration of Growth
By: M. Elizabeth Barnes
| Published: Jul 24, 2014
The Law of Acceleration of Growth is a theory proposed by Edward Drinker Cope in the US during the nineteenth century. Cope developed it in an…
developmentEvolutionCope, E. D. (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897Growth and Development
In the Matter of the Marriage of Dahl and Angle (2008)
By: Mark Zhang, Jennifer E. Chapman
| Published: May 06, 2014
In the 2008 court case In the Matter of the Marriage of Dahl and Angle, the Court of Appeals of Oregon upheld a written in vitro fertilization (IVF)…
LawFrozen human embryosFertilization in VitroEmbryo DispositionEmbryo
The Marine Biological Laboratory
By: Jane Maienschein
| Published: Oct 24, 2008
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) was founded in 1888 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Woods Hole was already the site for the government 's US…
Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.)OrganizationsEducationLaboratories
John Tyler Bonner (1920- )
By: Mary E. Sunderland
| Published: May 09, 2008
The establishment and growth of developmental-evolutionary biology owes a great debt to the work of John Tyler Bonner. Bonner's studies of cellular…
PeopleDictyosteliidaBiographyMorphogenesisMulticellularity
Lewis Madison Terman (1877–1956)
By: Cole Nichols
| Published: Feb 25, 2025
Lewis Madison Terman was a researcher and university professor who studied educational psychology and advocated for eugenics in the United States…
EugenicsBinet TestIntelligence testsReproductionIntelligence
"A Genomic Regulatory Network for Development" (2002), by Eric H. Davidson, et al.
By: Justin M. Wolter
| Published: Oct 11, 2013
In 2002 Eric Davidson and his research team published 'A Genomic Regulatory Network for Development' in Science. The authors present the first…
LiteratureGene regulatory networksSystems BiologyGenetic regulationGenes
"Mitochondrial DNA and Human Evolution" (1987), by Rebecca Louise Cann, Mark Stoneking, and Allan Charles Wilson
By: Dorothy R. Haskett
| Published: Oct 10, 2014
In 1987 Rebecca Louise Cann, Mark Stoneking, and Allan Charles Wilson published Mitochondrial DNA and Human Evolution in the journal Nature. The…
LiteratureMitochondriaHuman EvolutionEvolutionHomo sapiens
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