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Thesis: Surviving Cervical Cancer: A History of Prevention, Early Detection, and Treatment

By: Alexis Darby | Published: Mar 22, 2021

This thesis answers the following question: How does the history of cervical cancer show that prevention helps reduce rates of cancer-related deaths…

Cervix uteri--CancerCervical CancerCancerHistory of MedicineMedicine, History
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Sanger Sequencing

By: Tea Zawilak | Published: Aug 08, 2025

Sanger sequencing is a laboratory method that scientists use to determine the sequence of nucleotides within a piece of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA…

Sequence Analysis, DNAGenomicsPolymerase chain reactionNucleotide sequenceGenetics

Bernard Nathanson (1926-2011)

By: Mark Zhang | Published: Apr 22, 2013

Bernard Nathanson was an obstetrician and gynecologist in New York City, New York, who argued for, and later against, women's rights to abortion.…

PeopleObstetriciansGynecologistsAbortionUltrasonics in obstetrics

Golden Rice

By: Marci Baranski | Published: Sep 17, 2013

Golden Rice was engineered from normal rice by Ingo Potrykus and Peter Beyer in the 1990s to help improve human health. Golden Rice has an engineered…

TechnologyRiceBiotechnologyGenesMolecular Biology

The ‘Kangaroo-Method’ for Treating Low Birth Weight Babies in a Developing Country” (1994), by Nils Bergman and Agneta Jürisoo

By: Claire E. Grayson | Published: May 24, 2018

In the 1994 article “The ‘Kangaroo-Method’ for Treating Low Birth Weight Babies in a Developing Country,” authors Nils Bergman and Agneta Jürisoo…

LiteratureInfant CareMother and infantInfants--Care--AfricaZimbabwe

Katharine McCormick (1876-1967)

By: Aliya Buttar | Published: Nov 08, 2007

Katharine Dexter McCormick, who contributed the majority of funding for the development of the oral contraceptive pill, was born to Josephine and…

PeopleContraceptionethicsReproductionReproductive Rights

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

Robert Lanza (1956- )

By: Christopher Rojas | Published: Feb 11, 2015

During the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Robert Paul Lanza studied embryonic stem cells, tissues, and endangered species as chief scientific…

Advanced Cell Technology (Firm)BantengCloningEmbryosEmbryonic Stem Cells

The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering (2007), by Michael J. Sandel

By: Nathalie Antonios | Published: Apr 18, 2011

The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering, hereafter referred to as The Case against Perfection, written by Michael J.…

LiteratureGenetic EngineeringPublicationsethicsbioethics

Images of Embryos in Life Magazine in the 1950s

By: Olivia Conley | Published: Jun 30, 2010

Embryonic images displayed in Life magazine during the mid-twentieth century serve as a representation of technological advances and the growing…

PublicationsReproductionChicksHuman DevelopmentFetus