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Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You (2015), by the British Broadcasting Corporation and The Open University

By: Jessica Cartwright | Published: Nov 21, 2017

In 2015, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) partnered with The Open University to produce the three-part documentary series, Countdown to…

LiteratureConceptionGestationReproductionPhysiology

“Part-Human Chimeras: Worrying the Facts, Probing the Ethics” (2007), by Françoise Baylis and Jason Scott Robert

By: Alexis Darby | Published: Jun 19, 2021

In 2007, Françoise Baylis and Jason Scott Robert published “Part-Human Chimeras: Worrying the Facts, Probing the Ethics” in The American Journal of…

LiteratureChimerismNeuronsChimeraGenetics

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

Hedgehog Signaling Pathway

By: Dorothy R. Haskett | Published: Jul 30, 2015

The hedgehog signaling pathway is a mechanism that directs the development of embryonic cells in animals, from invertebrates to vertebrates. The…

EmbryologyEmbryosWieschaus, Eric F.Cellular signal transductionDrosophila melanogaster

Frank Rattray Lillie's Study of Freemartins (1914-1920)

By: Mary Drago | Published: Mar 14, 2014

Frank Rattray Lillie's research on freemartins from 1914 to 1920 in the US led to the theory that hormones partly caused for sex differentiation in…

Lillie, Frank Rattray, 1870-1947Intersexuality in animalsFreemartinismHormonesExperiments

“Annual Research Review: Prenatal Stress and the Origins of Psychopathology: An Evolutionary Perspective” (2011), by Vivette Glover

By: Carrie Keller | Published: May 02, 2020

In 2011, fetal researcher Vivette Glover published “Annual Research Review: Prenatal Stress and the Origins of Psychopathology: An Evolutionary…

LiteratureStress in adolescenceStress in youthPsychological StressPregnancy

Robert Geoffrey Edwards (1925-2013)

By: Samuel Philbrick | Published: Jun 20, 2011

Robert Geoffrey Edwards worked with Patrick Christopher Steptoe to develop in-vitro fertilization (IVF) techniques during the 1960s and 1970s in the…

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"Experiments in Plant Hybridization" (1866), by Johann Gregor Mendel

By: Amanda Andrei | Published: Sep 04, 2013

During the mid-nineteenth century, Johann Gregor Mendel experimented with pea plants to develop a theory of inheritance. In 1843, while a monk in the…

GeneticsPeasLegumesPhenotypePlant breeding

Clifford Grobstein (1916-1998)

By: Brad Jacobson | Published: Nov 19, 2010

Clifford Grobstein was a traditional, influential, and highly innovative biologist of the mid-twentieth century, gifted with many character facets…

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Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado (1964- )

By: Mary E. Sunderland | Published: Jun 10, 2010

Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado is a Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the University of Utah School of Medicine and is also a Howard Hughes…

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