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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
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“Human Organoids: Tools for Understanding Biology and Treating Diseases” (2020), by Frans Schutgens and Hans Clevers

By: Aida Movahed | Published: Aug 08, 2025

In 2020, Frans Schutgens and Hans Clevers published “Human Organoids: Tools for Understanding Biology and Treating Diseases,” hereafter “Human…

OrganoidsCell Culture Techniques, Three DimensionalPrimary Cell Cultureinduced pluripotent stem cellsAdult Stem Cells

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

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

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (1991- )

By: Sarah Taddeo | Published: Oct 30, 2014

In 1991, the United Kingdom established the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) as a response to technologies that used human embryos…

OrganizationEmbryologyReproductive HealthHuman reproductive technologyWarnock, Mary, 1808-1900

Test-Tube Baby

By: Stephen C. Ruffenach | Published: Jan 13, 2009

A test-tube baby is the product of a successful human reproduction that results from methods beyond sexual intercourse between a man and a woman and…

Artificial InseminationInsemination, ArtificialethicsReproductionFertilization
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The Idea of Ectogenesis in Daedalus; or Science and The Future (1924), by John Burdon Sanderson Haldane

By: Aubrey Pinteric | Published: Aug 05, 2025

In 1924, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, aka JBS Haldane, published Daedalus; or Science and The Future, hereafter Daedalus, which was a written…

In vitro fertilizationFertilityEctogenesisReproductive technologyClassification--Books--Science fiction

Merck & Company's Development of Gardasil

By: Maeen Arslan | Published: Jun 28, 2022

In 2006, the United States branch of Merck & Co. received FDA approval for Gardasil, a human papillomavirus, or HPV, vaccine that protects…

OrganizationCervix uteri--CancerPapillomavirusesVaccine mandatesMeasles vaccine

Amniocentesis

By: Katherine Brind'Amour | Published: Jun 04, 2008

Amniocentesis is a test used for prenatal diagnosis of inherited diseases, Rh incompatibility, neural tube defects, and lung maturity. Normally…

AmniocentesisReproductionFetus