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The Public Broadcasting Station (PBS) documentary Life's Greatest Miracle (abbreviated Miracle, available at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/miracle/…
LiteratureHuman DevelopmentReproductionMoviesTelomeres are sequences of DNA on the ends of chromosomes that protect chromosomes from sticking to each other or tangling, which could cause…
TelomeraseGreider, Carol W.Wistar Institute of Anatomy and BiologyAgingDNAThe spinal column is the central structure in the vertebrate body from which stability, movement, and posture all derive. The vertebrae of the spine…
Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and AbnormalitiesReproductionVertebratesCongenital DisordersThe March of Dimes Foundation, or the March of Dimes, is a non-profit organization headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, focused on the health of…
OrganizationsPoliomyelitisInfantile ParalysisPolioBirth DefectsIn 2007, Philippe Horvath and his colleagues explained how bacteria protect themselves against viruses at Danisco, a Danish food company, in Dangé-…
gene editingStreptococcus thermophilusvirusesBacteriaRNACornelia Isabella Bargmann studied the relationship between genes, neural circuits, and behavior in the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans…
Drosophila melanogasterNeural circuitryNeurobiologyHER-2 geneHER-2 proteinAmong other functions, the Notch signaling pathway contributes to the development of somites in animals. It involves a cell signaling mechanism with…
Notch genesNotch ProteinsReceptors, NotchNotch ReceptorsIn 1910, Thomas Hunt Morgan performed an experiment at Columbia University, in New York City, New York, that helped identify the role chromosomes…
DrosophilaHeredityInheritance of acquired charactersColumbia University--Graduate studentsMutationEdmund Beecher Wilson in the US published An Atlas of Fertilization and Karyokinesis of the Ovum (hereafter called An Atlas) in 1895. The book…
LiteratureKaryokinesisFertilization (Biology)ConceptionDevelopmental BiologyIn the 1950s and 1960s, researchers Leon Chesley, John Annitto, and Robert Cosgrove investigated the possible familial factor for the conditions of…
Chesley, Leon C., 1908-2000PreeclampsiaEclampsiaMargaret Hague Maternity Hospital (Jersey City, N.J.)Pregnancy