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Hydrocephalus During Infancy

By: Alexandra Bohnenberger | Published: Mar 07, 2017

Hydrocephalus is a congenital or acquired disorder characterized by the abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid within the cavities of the brain…

HydrocephalusDandy, Walter Edward, 1886-1946Arnold-Chiari DeformityBrain--DiseasesInfants--Diseases

Ontogeny and Phylogeny (1977), by Stephen Jay Gould

By: M. Elizabeth Barnes | Published: Oct 21, 2014

Ontogeny and Phylogeny is a book published in 1977, in which the author Stephen J. Gould, who worked in the US, tells a history of the theory of…

LiteratureEvolutionOntogenyEmbryologyMeckel, J. F. (Johann Friedrich), 1781-1833

Charles Darwin's Theory of Pangenesis

By: Yawen Zou | Published: Jul 20, 2014

In 1868 in England, Charles Darwin proposed his pangenesis theory to describe the units of inheritance between parents and offspring and the…

HeredityDarwin, Charles, 1809-1882ReproductionEvolutionNatural selection

Mitochondria

By: Dorothy R. Haskett | Published: Jul 05, 2014

All cells that have a nucleus, including plant, animal, fungal cells, and most single-celled protists, also have mitochondria. Mitochondria are…

CellsCell organellesMitochondriaPlant mitochondriaEndosymbiosis

Thesis: Reviving the Dead, Ignoring the Living: Emotions, Ethics, and the Dream of De-Extinction

By: Risa Aria Schnebly | Published: Nov 30, 2021

The goal of this research project was to examine how different messaging techniques, and especially expressions of emotionality surrounding the loss…

Extinction (Biology)Genetic EngineeringCommunication in scienceReproductive Healthconservation

A Child Is Born (1965), by Lennart Nilsson

By: Mark Zhang | Published: Sep 17, 2013

Dell Publishing in New York City, New York, published Lennart Nilsson's A Child Is Born in 1966. The book was a translation of the Swedish version…

LiteraturedevelopmentPregnancyfetal developmentFetal Growth

Johns Hopkins Fertility Center

By: Aroob Khokhar | Published: Jul 01, 2010

Johns Hopkins Medical Center, located in Baltimore, Maryland, opened in 1889; its associated medical school opened four years later. Today the…

OrganizationFertilityOrganizationsReproductionmedicine

"Experiments on the Development of Chick and Duck Embryos, Cultivated in vitro" (1932), by Conrad Hal Waddington

By: Adam R. Navis | Published: Nov 08, 2007

Conrad Hal Waddington's "Experiments on the Development of Chick and Duck Embryos, Cultivated in vitro," published in 1932 in Philosophical…

Waddington, C. H. (Conrad Hal), 1905-1975ExperimentsChicksDucks

Epigenetic Landscape

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

The epigenetic landscape is a concept representing embryonic development. It was proposed by Conrad Hal Waddington to illustrate the various…

Waddington, C. H. (Conrad Hal), 1905-1975EpigeneticsCell differentiationEmbryologyDevelopmental Biology

Warren Tay (1843–1927)

By: Tiffany Nardi | Published: May 27, 2017

The arterial switch operation, also called the Jatene procedure, is an operation in which surgeons redirect the flow of blood through abnormal hearts…

TechnologyJatene, AdibTransposition of Great VesselsCongenital Heart DiseaseAorta--Abnormalities