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Cornelia Isabella Bargmann (1961- )

By: Dasia Garcia | Published: Jun 19, 2017

Cornelia Isabella Bargmann studied the relationship between genes, neural circuits, and behavior in the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans…

Drosophila melanogasterNeural circuitryNeurobiologyHER-2 geneHER-2 protein

David Baltimore (1938–2025)

By: Meilin Zhu | Published: Dec 27, 2017

David Baltimore studied viruses and the immune system in the US during the twentieth century. In 1975, Baltimore was awarded the Nobel Prize in…

Baltimore, DavidDNAAcquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

"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
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“Impact of COVID-19 and Other Viruses on Reproductive Health” (2020), by Osamah Batiha, Taghleb Al-Deeb, Esra’a Al-zoubi, and Emad Alsharu

By: Logan Hunt | Published: Jun 05, 2025

In 2020, Osamah Batiha and colleagues published their article “Impact of COVID-19 and Other Viruses on Reproductive Health,'' hereafter “Impact of…

COVID-19COVID-19 PandemicCOVID-19 Virus DiseaseCOVID-19 Virus InfectionPandemic Preparedness

Santiago Felipe Ramon y Cajal (1852-1934)

By: Sarah Taddeo | Published: Jun 05, 2014

Santiago Felipe Ramon y Cajal investigated brains in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Spain. He identified and individuated many components…

NeuronsChickens--EmbryosAxons

Endometriosis

By: Emily Santora, Jovanna Perez | Published: Jun 21, 2021

Endometriosis is a medical condition that involves abnormal growths of tissue resembling the endometrium, which is the tissue that lines the inside…

EndometriosisSampson, John A. (John Albertson), 1873-DysmenorrheaMenstruation disordersReproductive Health

Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak's Telomere and Telomerase Experiments (1982-1989)

By: Zane Bartlett | Published: Mar 24, 2015

Experiments conducted by Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak from 1982 to 1989 provided theories of how the ends of chromosomes,…

TelomereGreider, Carol W.Chromosome replicationTelomeraseDNA

Walter Jakob Gehring (1939-2014)

By: Joe Brinkman | Published: Dec 22, 2014

Walter Jakob Gehring discovered the homeobox, a DNA segment found in a specific cluster of genes that determine the body plan of animals, plants, and…

Homeobox genesDrosophilaGeneticsGenesGenes, Homeobox

Theophilus Shickel
Painter (1889-1969)

By: Dorothy Haskett | Published: Nov 22, 2014

Theophilus Shickel Painter studied the structure and function of chromosomes in the US during in the early to mid-twentieth century. Painter worked…

ChromosomesKaryotypesSex ChromosomesGeneticsLinkage (Genetics)

Syncytial Theory

By: Adam R. Navis | Published: Oct 30, 2007

The syncytial theory of neural development was proposed by Victor Hensen in 1864 to explain the growth and differentiation of the nervous system.…

Hensen, Victor, 1835-1924Nervous SystemNeurons