Hey Embryo Project, how do we treat HSV?
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03.10.2025 01:59 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In 1983, researchers published a study on one of the world’s first pregnancies through cryopreservation!
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01.10.2025 01:09 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
David Hubel studied the development of the visual system and how the brain processes visual information. His research demonstrated how vision impairments can affect the development of the visual system in humans
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30.09.2025 00:25 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
In 1991, the US National Institutes of Health launched the Women’s Health Initiative which is one of the largest and one of the first long-term, nationwide studies of health conditions affecting postmenopausal females.
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19.09.2025 02:40 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Alan Trounson is a scientist from Australia who developed techniques that improved the effectiveness of IVF, and supported stem cell research as a scientist and administrator. embryo.asu.edu/pages/alan-o...
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16.09.2025 21:40 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
In 1975, researchers participated in the Asilomar Conference to discuss policy regarding rDNA technology. The purpose was to discuss how to manage the risk of researchers unintentionally creating harmful or deadly pathogens through rDNA.
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11.09.2025 22:45 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Learn more about how Henry Turner describes a previously unrecognized set of symptoms in females, including a lack of physical and sexual development, infertility, and webbed neck, among others.
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05.09.2025 23:11 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Menopausal Symptoms? Learn more about hormone replacement therapy at: embryo.asu.edu/pages/hormon...
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03.09.2025 23:46 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Missing Link between Turner Syndrome and Congenital Heart Disease Patterns?
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01.09.2025 18:10 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
George Hitchings researched and developed medications that targeted specific parts of DNA replication processes to treat cancers and various illnesses. New Article!
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29.08.2025 04:35 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Neonatal HSV vs. Acyclovir? Read more about HSV's natural history at the Embryo Project: embryo.asu.edu/pages/natura...
New article!
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28.08.2025 03:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Christine Jorgensen was a transgender woman and activist in the US. Jorgensen’s advocacy and activism increased transgender awareness for the public at a time when existing and living openly as a transgender person received little support.
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25.08.2025 22:54 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
When the outsiders became the experts: AIDS activists transformed the field of biomedicine, and paved the way for additional research on illness-related social movements.
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17.08.2025 06:07 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
When the outsiders became the experts: AIDS activists transformed the field of biomedicine, and paved the way for additional research on illness-related social movements.
embryo.asu.edu/pages/constr...
#hpbio #philsci #histstm #histsci #philbio #hbio #sts #hps #biology #AIDS #encyclopedia
16.08.2025 01:20 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency is a chromosomal disorder in which the immune system lacks multiple protective cells that defend the body from disease.
Learn more at: embryo.asu.edu/pages/x-link...
#science#encyclopedia#sciencecommunication#biology#X-SCID
11.08.2025 22:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
David Vetter was born with a severe immunodeficiency disorder and spent most of his life in a sterile bubble. As one of the first germ-free humans, Vetter provided a way for researchers to study what happens when a human develops without germs.
Learn more:
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07.08.2025 20:32 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The DTaP vaccination series is an FDA-approved, five-shot vaccine for young children in the United States for protection against diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis. New Article: DTaP Vaccination Series, by Maggie Zhou
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05.08.2025 22:05 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
In 1972, in Eisenstadt v. Baird, the SCOTUS determined that unmarried individuals have the same right to access contraceptives as married couples. New article: embryo.asu.edu/pages/eisens...
#sciencecommunication #encyclopedia #contraceptives #science
04.08.2025 17:04 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Learn more about the Supreme Court case Griswold v. Connecticut
New article, embryo.asu.edu/pages/griswo...
#sciencecommunication #biology #research #arizonastateuniversity #asu #science #encyclopedia #contraception #griswoldvconnecticut #scotus #birthcontrol
29.07.2025 21:10 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Image by Wellcome Collection Gallery Wikimedia Commons. C-section surgery
Millions of people undergo c-sections to give birth every year. In 1933, Jane Eliot Sewell presented “Cesarean Section--A Brief History,” in which she describes the advancements of technologies and c-section techniques that increased surgical survival rates.
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21.07.2025 17:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Want to learn about something that’s not what it seems?
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#sciencecommunication #biology #research #arizonastateuniversity #asu #science #vasectomy #eugenics
15.07.2025 17:42 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A karyotype showing the genetic condition of Turner Syndrome
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Henry Hubert Turner was one of the first physicians and researchers to identify Turner Syndrome, a genetic condition that affects 1,500 to 2,500 female births.
25.06.2025 17:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Researcher with purple gloves holding a black mouse.
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Have you ever heard of germ-free animals? Germ-free animals are laboratory animals that completely lack microbes, making them useful tools for microbiome research.
23.06.2025 17:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Image depicting an infant prior to cleft lip surgery and after cleft lip repair Image by BruceBlaus via Wikimedia Commons
About one in every 1600 babies in the US is born with both cleft lip and cleft palate defect, which can result in speech difficulties. Researchers Alice Lee, Fiona E. Gibbon, and Kimberley Spivey were one of the first to explore how different age groups judge their peers with speech difficulties.
16.06.2025 16:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Portrait of researcher Gertrude Belle Elion
Herpes can be treated with a drug called acyclovir. Learn more about Gertrude Belle Elion, the scientist who helped create acyclovir and many other antiviral drugs that we still use today!
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11.06.2025 21:58 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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