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"The Multi-Dimensional Human Embryo"

By: Sarah Ly | Published: Mar 24, 2011

The Multi-Dimensional Human Embryo website (http://embryo.soad.umich.edu/) is a publicly accessible online database of the first three-dimensional…

OrganizationOrganizationsHuman Development

Magnetic Resonance Microscopy (MRM)

By: Sarah Ly | Published: Mar 24, 2011

Magnetic Resonance Microscopy (MRM) is an imaging method that allows the visualization of internal body structures. Using powerful magnets to send…

TechnologyMagnetic resonance microscopyMagnetic resonance imagingMicroscopy

Epidermal Growth Factor

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

Epidermal growth factor is a signaling molecule that stimulates the growth of epidermal tissues during development and throughout life. Stanley Cohen…

Levi-Montalcini, RitaHamburger, Viktor, 1900-2001EmbryologyEmbryosDevelopmental Biology

"Experiments on Embryonic Induction III. A Note on Inductions by Chick Primitive Streak Transplanted to the Rabbit Embryo" (1934), by Conrad Hal Waddington

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

Conrad Hal Waddington's "Experiments on Embryonic Induction III," published in 1934 in the Journal of Experimental Biology, describes the discovery…

Waddington, C. H. (Conrad Hal), 1905-1975EmbryosCell differentiationEmbryologyChickens--Embryos

My Father, My Son (1986), by Elmo Zumwalt, Jr., Elmo Zumwalt III, and John Pekkanen

By: Ceci Chou | Published: Jun 16, 2017

My Father, My Son is a dual autobiography by father and son Elmo Russell Zumwalt Jr. and Elmo Russell Zumwalt III published by Macmillan Publishing…

LiteratureAgent OrangeHerbicidesSpina BifidaOperation Ranch Hand, 1962-1971

Copper Intrauterine Device (IUD)

By: Victoria Higginbotham | Published: Jul 05, 2018

The copper intrauterine device, or IUD, is a long-term, reversible contraceptive first introduced by Howard Tatum and Jamie Zipper in 1967. Health…

ContraceptivesCopper intrauterine contraceptivesDalkon Shield (Intrauterine contraceptive)Levonorgestrel intrauterine contraceptivesNorgestrel

"On the Replication of Desoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA)" (1954), by Max Delbruck

By: Victoria Hernandez | Published: Sep 21, 2017

In 1954 Max Delbruck published On the Replication of Desoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) to question the semi-conservative DNA replication mechanism…

LiteratureHolmes, Frederic LawrenceMeselson, MatthewStahl, Franklin W.Watson, James D., 1928-

"Experiments on Artificial Parthenogenesis in Annelids (Chaetopterus) and the Nature of the Process of Fertilization" (1901), by Jacques Loeb

By: Steve Elliott | Published: Jun 10, 2009

Jacques Loeb showed that scientists could achieve artificial parthenogenesis with some types of annelid worm eggs through a series of experiments in…

ParthenogenesisExperimentsWorms

John Spangler Nicholas (1895-1963)

By: Ellen M. DuPont | Published: Jul 23, 2008

John Spangler Nicholas, an American biologist, was born on 10 March 1895 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. He was the only child of Elizabeth Ellen…

PeopleBiographyMammalsAmphibians

“Fetal Programming and Adult Health” (2001), by Kevin M. Godfrey and David J.P. Barker

By: Carrie Keller | Published: Feb 01, 2021

In 2001, Kevin M. Godfrey and David J.P. Barker published the article “Fetal Programming and Adult Health” in Public Health Nutrition, where they…

LiteraturePregnancy--ComplicationsFetal heart--AbnormalitiesMaternal-Fetal ExchangeMetabolism in pregnancy