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Fetus in Fetu

By: Corinne DeRuiter | Published: May 30, 2012

Fetus in fetu is a rare variety of parasitic twins , where the developmentally abnormal parasitic twin is completely encapsulated within the torso of…

FetusEmbryosfetal developmentPregnancyFetus--Abnormalities

Andrew Zachary Fire (1959- )

By: May Catherine | Published: Nov 28, 2011

Andrew Zachary Fire is a professor at Stanford University and Nobel Laureate. Fire worked at the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of…

PeopleRNA InterferenceBiography

Thesis: Human Preconception Sex Selection: Informing the Public of Sex Selection Methods and Ethical Considerations

By: Alysse Blight | Published: Feb 26, 2021

By questioning methods of sex selection since their early development, and often discovering that they are unreliable, scientists have increased the…

Sex PreselectionSex SelectionEthics, MedicalMedical Ethicsethics

John George Children (1777–1852)

By: Brittany Kaminsky | Published: Mar 25, 2018

John George Children described several species of insects and animals while working at the British Museum in London, England, in the eighteenth and…

Electric batteriesPythons

Digit Regeneration Is Regulated by Msx1 and BMP4 in Fetal Mice (2003), by Manjong Han et al.

By: Joe Brinkman | Published: Apr 13, 2015

In the early 2000s, Manjong Han, Xiaodang Yang, Jennifer Farrington, and Ken Muneoka investigated how genes and proteins in fetal mice (Mus musculus…

Regeneration (Biology)MiceRegenerationHomeobox genesBone Morphogenetic Proteins

James G. Wilson's Six Principles of Teratology

By: S. Alexandra Aston | Published: May 23, 2014

James Graves Wilson's six principles of teratology, published in 1959, guide research on teratogenic agents and their effects on developing organisms…

TeratologyAbnormalities, HumanCongenital AbnormalitiesBirth DefectsCongenital Defects

Benjamin Harrison Willier (1890-1972)

By: Karen Wellner | Published: Jun 28, 2010

Benjamin Harrison Willier is considered one of the most versatile embryologists to have ever practiced in the US. His research spanned most of the…

TransplantationBiography

"Evolution and
Tinkering" (1977), by Francois Jacob

By: Valerie Racine | Published: Oct 24, 2014

In his essay Evolution and Tinkering, published in Science in 1977, Francois Jacob argued that a common analogy between the process of evolution by…

LiteratureInstitut Pasteur (Paris, France)OperonsGenetic regulationNobel Prizes

Francois Jacob (1920-2013)

By: Valerie Racine | Published: Sep 29, 2014

Francois Jacob studied in bacteria and bacteriophages at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France, in the second half of the twentieth century. In…

BacteriaOperonsLac OperonGenetic regulationEscherichia coli--Genetics

Karl Landsteiner (1868-1943)

By: Corey Harbison | Published: Feb 17, 2017

Karl Landsteiner studied blood types in Europe and in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Landsteiner won the…

Rh factorRhesus MonkeyBlood GroupsBlood CellsBlood Transfusions