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Bernadine Healy (1944–2011)
By: Alexis Darby
| Published: Nov 08, 2017
During the twentieth century in the United States, Bernadine Patricia Healy was a cardiologist who served as the first female director of the…
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)Harvard Medical SchoolMyocardial Infarction
"Pregnancy Complicating Diabetes" (1949), by Priscilla White
By: Blaise Castagnetti
| Published: Oct 24, 2017
In 1949, Priscilla White published Pregnancy Complicating Diabetes, which described the results and implications of a fifteen-year study about…
LiteratureFetal MortalityMaternal Deathpregnancy complicationsVascular Diseases
What Every Mother Should Know (1914), by Margaret Sanger
By: Malladi Lakshmeeramya
| Published: Oct 24, 2017
What Every Mother Should Know was published in 1914 in New York City, New York, as a compilation of newspaper articles written by Margaret Sanger in…
LiteratureObscenity (Law)Abortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortionBirth control clinics
“The Emergence of Developmental Psychopathology” (1984), by Dante Cicchetti
By: Hira Ali
| Published: Oct 24, 2017
In 1984, Dante Cicchetti published “The Emergence of Developmental Psychopathology,” an article in which he argued that the previously amorphous…
LiteratureChild Maltreatmentchild psychopathologyClinical health psychologyHarvard University
Pfeffer Cell Apparatus
By: Sara Parker
| Published: Oct 24, 2017
The Pfeffer Zelle (Pfeffer Cell Apparatus), invented by Wilhelm Pfeffer in 1877, measured the minimum pressure needed to prevent a pure solvent from…
TechnologyPlant cell membranesPlants--DevelopmentOsmosisMembranes (Technology)
Charles Knowlton (1800–1850)
By: Caroline Meek
| Published: Oct 24, 2017
Charles Knowlton was a physician and author who advocated for increased access to information about reproduction in the nineteenth century in the US…
Knowlton, Charles, 1800-1850Bradlaugh, Charles, 1833-1891Besant, Annie, 1847-1933Birth ControlObscenity (Law)--Great Britain
Hodgson v. Minnesota (1990)
By: Rainey Horwitz
| Published: Oct 24, 2017
In the 1990 case Hodgson v. Minnesota, the US Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., upheld Minnesota statute 144.343, which required physicians to…
LawAbortionBirth control clinicsReproductive RightsAbortion--Law and legislation--United States
Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier’s Experiment About the CRISPR/cas 9 System’s Role in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity (2012)
By: Meilin Zhu
| Published: Oct 19, 2017
In 2012, Jennifer Doudna, Emmanuelle Charpentier from the University of California, Berkeley, in Berkeley, California, and Umeå University in Umeå,…
gene editingStreptococcus pyogenesTranscription Activator-Like Effector NucleasesscFV green fluorescent protein, recombinantClustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats
“Sources of Human Psychological Differences: The Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart” (1990), by Thomas J. Bouchard Jr, David T. Lykken, Matthew McGue, Nancy L. Segal and Auke Tellegen
By: Mudhaffar Bahjat
| Published: Oct 19, 2017
In 1990, Thomas J. Bouchard and his colleagues published the paper “Sources of Human Psychological Differences: The Minnesota Study of Twins Reared…
LiteratureNature and nurtureGeneticsHeredityTwin Study
Charles Bradlaugh (1833–1891)
By: Caroline Meek
| Published: Oct 11, 2017
Charles Bradlaugh was as a political and social activist in the seventeenth century in England. He held leadership positions in various organizations…
Knowlton, Charles, 1800-1850Bradlaugh, Charles, 1833-1891Besant, Annie, 1847-1933Birth ControlObscenity (Law)--Great Britain