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Thesis: Vasectomy: Goals, Practices, and Effects

By: Cole Nichols | Published: Aug 26, 2024

Vasectomy is one of few widely available methods of contraception for people with male reproductive systems aside from condoms, abstinence, and…

ContraceptionBirth ControlVasectomyEugenicsVasovasostomy
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Thesis: The Impacts of Simplifying Science and How to Achieve Understanding

By: Logan Hunt | Published: Aug 26, 2024

Simplifying science means more than just making science understandable for people of lower chronological age, it also encompasses making science…

Ask A BiologistSimplifying scienceEmbryo TalesMaking science more accessibleReadability checker
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Geduldig v. Aiello (1974)

By: Nathaniel Ross | Published: Aug 22, 2024

In 1974, the United States Supreme Court decided in a six-to-three decision in Geduldig v. Aiello (1974), hereafter Geduldig, that pregnancy-related…

Lawpregnancy complicationsEctopic PregnancySex discriminationSex discrimination in insurance
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“How Colonization by Microbiota in Early Life Shapes the Immune System” (2016), by Thomas Gensollen, Shankar S. Iyer, Dennis L. Kasper, Richard S. Blumberg

By: Maggie Zhou | Published: Aug 21, 2024

In 2016, researcher Thomas Gensollen and colleagues published “How Colonization by Microbiota in Early Life Shapes the Immune System,” hereafter, “…

MicrobiotaImmune SystemImmune ResponseImmune System DisordersMicrobiomes
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“The Treatment of Early Syphilis with Penicillin: A Preliminary Report of 1418 Cases” (1944), by Joseph Earle Moore, J. F. Mahoney, Walter Schwartz, Thomas Sternberg, and W. Barry Wood

By: Srivatsan Swaminathan | Published: Aug 13, 2024

In 1944, Joseph Earl Moore and colleagues published “The Treatment of Early Syphilis with Penicillin: A Preliminary Report of 1418 Cases,” hereafter…

SyphilisTreponema pallidumPenicillinsAntibiotics, PenicillinPenicillin
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Penicillin

By: Srivatsan Swaminathan | Published: Aug 12, 2024

Penicillin is a type of drug called an antibiotic that can treat bacterial infections by killing the bacteria or making it difficult for the bacteria…

Antibiotics, PenicillinStaphylococcusAntibacterial Drug ResistanceSyphilisDrug Development
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Acyclovir for the Treatment of Herpes

By: Eboni E. Andersun | Published: Aug 08, 2024

Acyclovir is an antiviral medication that scientists developed in the twentieth century to treat herpes, a disease caused by the viruses herpes…

AcyclovirAntiherpes CremeZoviraxGenital HerpesHerpes Simplex Virus 1
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Pierre Franco (1505–1578)

By: Grace Rauch | Published: Aug 07, 2024

Pierre Franco was a surgeon in Europe in the sixteenth century who developed a variety of surgical procedures, including some to repair hernias,…

Cleft PalateDevelopmental DisordersCleft LipHerniaCataract
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“A Sex Chromosome Anomaly in a Case of Gonadal Dysgenesis (Turner’s Syndrome)” (1959), by Charles Edmund Ford, K. W Jones, Paul E. Polani, J. C De Almeida, and J. H Briggs

By: Megha Pillai | Published: Aug 06, 2024

In 1959, Charles Edmund Ford and colleagues published “A Sex Chromosome Anomaly in a Case of Gonadal Dysgenesis (Turner’s Syndrome),” hereafter “A…

Turner SyndromeGonadal DysgenesisGonadal Dysgenesis, XOGonadal Dysgenesis, 45, XAbnormalities, Sex Chromosome