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"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…

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Pre- and Post-natal Growth Deficiencies and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

By: Erica O'Neil | Published: May 04, 2011

Maternal consumption of alcohol (ethanol) during pregnancy can inhibit prenatal growth, resulting in fetuses that are small for gestational age.…

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Ethics of Designer Babies

By: Sarah Ly | Published: Mar 31, 2011

A designer baby is a baby genetically engineered in vitro for specially selected traits, which can vary from lowered disease-risk to gender selection…

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William Harvey (1578-1657)

By: Angel Lopez | Published: Jun 18, 2010

Renowned physician and scientist William Harvey is best known for his accurate description of how blood circulates through the body. While his…

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The Organism as a Whole: From a Physicochemical Viewpoint (1916), by Jacques Loeb

By: Steve Elliott | Published: May 06, 2010

Jacques Loeb published The Organism as a Whole: From a Physicochemical Viewpoint in 1916. Loeb's goal for the book was to refute the claim that…

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The Biological Bulletin

By: Jane Maienschein | Published: Oct 24, 2008

From 1886 to 1889 Charles Otis Whitman was director of the Allis Lake Laboratory in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The lab was established by Edward Phelps…

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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…

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DTaP Vaccination Series

By: Maggie Zhou | Published: Jun 21, 2024

The DTaP vaccination series is an FDA-approved, five-shot vaccine for young children in the United States for protection against diphtheria, tetanus…

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Arnold Henry Kegel (1894–1972) 

By: Madelyn Johnson | Published: May 29, 2024

Arnold Henry Kegel worked and carried out research in the medical field of gynecology in the US during the twentieth century. Through his work, Kegel…

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