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The US President's Council on Bioethics (2001-2009)

By: Ceara O'Brien | Published: Feb 18, 2014

The US President's Council on Bioethics was an organization headquartered in Washington D.C. that was chartered to advise then US President George W…

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Henry Hubert Turner (1892–1970)

By: Megha Pillai | Published: Jun 06, 2024

Henry Hubert Turner was a physician and researcher who studied hormones and human development in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, during the twentieth…

Turner SyndromeNoonan SyndromeKlippel-Feil SyndromeEndocrine System DiseasesEndocrine Glands

David Edwin Wildt (1950- )

By: Caroline Appleton | Published: Jul 24, 2014

David Edwin Wildt developed and applied assisted reproductive technologies to conserve rare and endangered wildlife species in the US during the…

CheetahFertilization in VitroEmbryo transplantationReproductive technologyEndangered Species

Human Embryonic Stem Cells

By: Ke Wu | Published: Sep 13, 2010

Stem cells are undifferentiated cells that are capable of dividing for long periods of time and can give rise to specialized cells under particular…

Stem CellsReproductiondifferentiationHuman Development

Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells (UCBSC)

By: Angel Lopez | Published: Jul 01, 2010

Umbilical cord blood (UCB) stem cells are hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) that are recovered from the blood of the umbilical cord and placenta after…

Cord Blood Stem Cell TransplantationReproductionStem Cellsmedicine

"Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Somatic Cells" (2007), by Junying Yu et al.

By: Ke Wu | Published: Jun 29, 2010

On 2 December 2007, Science published a report on creating human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells from human somatic cells: "Induced Pluripotent…

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Dictyostelium discoideum

By: Mary E. Sunderland | Published: Jun 10, 2009

Dictyostelium discoideum is a cellular slime mold that serves as an important model organism in a variety of fields. Cellular slime molds have an…

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"On the Origin of Mitosing Cells" (1967), by Lynn Sagan

By: Dorothy Regan Haskett | Published: Apr 15, 2014

On the Origin of Mitosing Cells by Lynn Sagan appeared in the March 1967 edition of the Journal of Theoretical Biology. At the time the article was…

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“A Syndrome of Infantilism, Congenital Webbed Neck, and Cubitus Valgus” (1938), by Henry Hubert Turner

By: Megha Pillai | Published: Jul 02, 2024

In 1938, physician Henry Hubert Turner published “A Syndrome of Infantilism, Congenital Webbed Neck, and Cubitus Valgus,” hereafter “A Syndrome of…

Turner SyndromeNoonan SyndromeFemale Pseudo-Turner SyndromeInfantilism, GenitalGonadotropin-Releasing Hormone
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“Congenital Heart Disease in Patients with Turner’s Syndrome” (1998), by Laura Mazzanti, Emanuele Cacciari, and the Italian Study Group for Turner Syndrome

By: Megha Pillai | Published: Jun 25, 2024

In 1998, researchers Laura Mazzanti and Emanuele Cacciari published “Congenital Heart Disease in Patients with Turner’s Syndrome,” hereafter “…

Turner SyndromeTurner’s syndromeHeart Defects Congenital Heart DefectsGenetic Diseases