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Social Implications of Non-Invasive Blood Tests to Determine the Sex of Fetuses

By: Ceara O'Brien | Published: Mar 23, 2014

By 2011, researchers in the US had established that non-invasive blood tests can accurately determine the gender of a human fetus as early as seven…

ContextDiagnostic sex determinationSex PreselectionFetusSex Determination Analysis
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“Exposure to Perfluoroalkyl Substances in a Cohort of Women Firefighters and Office Workers in San Francisco” (2020), by Jessica Trowbridge and Colleagues

By: Federico Mellani | Published: Aug 14, 2025

In 2020, Jessica Trowbridge and colleagues published “Exposure to Perfluoroalkyl Substances in a Cohort of Women Firefighters and Office Workers in…

FirefightersFluorocarbonsOccupational ExposureFire fightersPerfluorinated chemicals

Women’s Field Army (1936–1948)

By: Emily Santora, Alexis Darby | Published: Jul 31, 2021

From 1936 to 1945, the Women’s Field Army, hereafter the WFA, educated women in the US on the early symptoms, prevention, and treatment of…

OrganizationCancercarcinomapublic healthUterine Cervical Neoplasms

Jerold Lucey (1926– )

By: Arianna Bradley | Published: Jun 12, 2017

Jerold Lucey studied newborn infants in the United States in the twentieth century. In the 1960s and 1970s, Lucey studied phototherapy as a treatment…

PhototherapyJaundiceJaundice, NeonatalNeonatologyBilirubin

Leonard Colebrook (1883–1967)

By: Safiya Shaikh | Published: May 25, 2017

Leonard Colebrook was a physician who researched bacteria and infections in England during the twentieth century. In 1936, Colebrook deployed the…

BacteriaInfectionsPuerperal septicemiaChildbirthBurn care units

Christian Peeters and Bert Hölldobler's Experiments on Reproduction in Indian Jumping Ants (1991–1994)

By: Kelle Dhein | Published: Mar 23, 2017

Between 1991 and 1994, Christian Peeters and Bert Hölldobler studied the reproductive behaviors of the Indian jumping ant (Harpegnathos saltator), a…

AntsPoneraInsectsWorkers (Insects)Queens (Insects)

Edward Charles Dodds (1899-1973)

By: Alexis Abboud | Published: Mar 06, 2017

Edward Charles Dodds researched the function and effects of natural and artificial hormones on the endocrine system in England during the twentieth…

Dodds, E. C. (Edward Charles), 1899-EndocrinologyEstrogenDiethylstilbestrolDiethylstilbestrol--Carcinogenicity

Isotretinoin (Accutane) as a Teratogen

By: Chanapa Tantibanchachai | Published: Jul 20, 2014

Isotretinoin is a molecule and a byproduct (metabolite) of vitamin A, and in greater than normal amounts in pregnant women, it can cause fetal…

Teratogenic agentsVitamin AIsotretinoinAbnormalities, HumanTeratogens

Ernst Haeckel's Biogenetic Law (1866)

By: M. Elizabeth Barnes | Published: May 03, 2014

The biogenetic law is a theory of development and evolution proposed by Ernst Haeckel in Germany in the 1860s. It is one of several recapitulation…

EvolutionDevelopmental BiologyEmbryologyAnatomy, Comparative
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“A Syndrome of Infantilism, Congenital Webbed Neck, and Cubitus Valgus” (1938), by Henry Hubert Turner

By: Megha Pillai | Published: Jul 02, 2024

In 1938, physician Henry Hubert Turner published “A Syndrome of Infantilism, Congenital Webbed Neck, and Cubitus Valgus,” hereafter “A Syndrome of…

Turner SyndromeNoonan SyndromeFemale Pseudo-Turner SyndromeInfantilism, GenitalGonadotropin-Releasing Hormone