In a recent letter, " How to keep abortion legal," the writer stated that fetuses in “their first 12 weeks ... have zero brain function and do not respond to stimuli of any kind.”In another ...

Ronan O’Rahilly and Fabiola Muller, Human Embryology & Teratology, 3rd ed. “A genetiucally distinct organism” is a technical way of saying that “a human life begins at conception” (when ...

In 1915, The University of Texas at Austin awarded its first Ph.D. ever to zoologist Carl Gottfried Hartman. Hartman would go on to become one of the most renowned researchers in mammalian embryology ...

The goal of experimental embryology seems rather simple: to manipulate embryos in systematic ways to elucidate mechanisms of development. Such manipulation involves variations in three main ...