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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
Oviraptor philoceratops Dinosaurs
By: Madison Paige
| Published: Feb 11, 2015
Oviraptor philoceratops was a small bird-like dinosaur that lived about seventy-five million years ago, during the late Cretaceous period. In 1923,…
OviraptorDinosaurs--EggsNatural history museumsPaleobiologyEvolutionary paleobiology
The Discovery of The Dikika Baby Fossil as Evidence for Australopithecine Growth and Development
By: Madison Paige
| Published: Feb 02, 2015
When scientists discovered a 3.3 million-year-old skeleton of a child of the human lineage (hominin) in 2000, in the village of Hadar, Ethiopia, they…
Human remains (Archaeology)Prehistoric peoplesAntiquities, PrehistoricArcheologyAnthropology, Physical
Wolbachia
By: Karine Prevot
| Published: Jan 29, 2015
Bacteria of the genus Wolbachia are bacteria that live within the cells of their hosts. They infect a wide range of arthropods (insects, arachnids…
WolbachiaBacteriaHost-bacteria relationshipsHost-parasite relationshipsArthropods
The Germ-Plasm: a Theory of Heredity (1893), by August Weismann
By: Yawen Zou
| Published: Jan 26, 2015
Friedrich Leopold August Weismann published Das Keimplasma: eine Theorie der Vererbung (The Germ-Plasm: a Theory of Heredity, hereafter The Germ-…
LiteratureWeismann, August, 1834-1914. Keimplasma. EnglishGerm CellsHeredityInheritance of acquired characters
Carol Widney Greider (1961-)
By: Zane Bartlett
| Published: Jan 26, 2015
Carol Widney Greider studied telomeres and telomerase in the US at the turn of the twenty-first century. She worked primarily at the University of…
Greider, Carol W.Women Nobel Prize winnersNobel Prize winnersTelomeraseTelomere
The Southern Gastric-Brooding Frog
By: Christopher Rojas
| Published: Jan 26, 2015
The Southern Gastric-Brooding Frog (Rheobatrachus silus) was an aquatic frog that lived in south-east Australia. In 2002, the International Union…
Sexual behavior in animalsReproductive BehaviorExtinction (Biology)Extinct animalsCloning
Roy Chapman Andrews (1884-1960)
By: Madison Paige
| Published: Jan 22, 2015
Roy Chapman Andrews traveled the world studying fossils, from mammals to dinosaurs, during the first half of the twentieth century. Andrews worked…
WhalesWhales, FossilDinosaursNatural history museumsDinosaurs--Eggs
Edwin Stephen Goodrich (1868-1946)
By: Joe Brinkman
| Published: Dec 30, 2014
Edwin Stephen Goodrich studied the structures of animals in England during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Goodrich studied how animals…
ZoologyHomology (Biology)InvertebratesEvolution
A plant genetically modified that accumulates Pb is especially promising for phytoremediation (2003), by Carmina Gisbert et al.
By: Ernest Nkansah-Dwamena
| Published: Dec 30, 2014
In 2003, Carmina Gisbert and her research team produced a tobacco plant that could remove lead from soil. To do so, they inserted a gene from wheat…
PhytoremediationtobaccoLeadSoil Pollutioncadmium