Insulin
... role in digestion.
Insulin crystals
In 1889, the German
physician Oscar Minkowski removed the pancreas from a healthy dog to demonstrate ... be based on general experience and training (ie, at the direction of a
physician or PA, or in some places a specialist diabetic educator) and, further, ...
Antibiotic
... prevented its use as an effective, safe antibiotic within the human body.
The first effective antibiotic discovered was penicillin . French
physician Ernest Duchesne noted in his 1896 thesis that certain Penicillium molds killed bacteria. Duchesne died within a few years, and his research was ...
Biology
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Terms and phrases
Omne vivum ex ovo - In vivo - In vitro - In utero - In silico
Related disciplines
Medicine (
physician ) - Physical anthropology
Outstanding problems
Origin of life - Unsolved problems in biology
Other
List of technologies - ...
Carolus Linnaeus
... maternal grandfather, Linnaeus was groomed as a youth to be churchman, but he showed little enthusiasm for it. His interest in botany impressed a
physician from his town and he was sent to study at Lund University , transferring to Uppsala University after one year.
During this time Linnaeus became ...
Charles Darwin
... his method of using wires to prop up birds to draw or paint them in natural positions.
His father, unhappy that his younger son would not become a
physician and fearing that Charles would become a "ne'er do well", enrolled him at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1827 on a BA course to qualify as a ...
Diabetes mellitus
... basis due to insulin therapy which is a fine art to master.
These results are especially useful for the diabetic to present to their doctor or
physician in the monitoring and control of the disease. Failure to maintain a strict regimen of testing can accelerate symptoms of the condition, and it is ...
Dialysis
... patient's home. Nurses and technicians working in the facility have special training specific to dialysis.
A prescription for dialysis by the renal
physician (nephrologist) will specify various parameters for setting up dialysis machines, times and durations of dialysis sessions. In the US and UK, 3-4 hour ...
Ernst Haeckel
... 16 , 1834 - August 8 , 1919 ) was a German biologist and philosopher who popularized Charles Darwin's work in Germany . Haeckel was a
physician and later a professor of comparative anatomy . He was one of the first to consider psychology as a branch of physiology . He also proposed ...
Hardy-Weinberg principle
... law in the English -speaking world until Stern ( 1943 ) pointed out that it had first been formulated independently in 1908 by the German
physician Wilhelm Weinberg (see Crow 1999).
References
Castle, W. E. ( 1903 ). The laws of Galton and Mendel and some laws governing race ...
Photosynthesis
... He then showed that the air that had been "injured" by the candle and the mouse could be restored by a plant.
In 1778 , Jan Ingenhousz , court
physician to the Austrian Empress, repeated Priestley's experiments. He discovered that it was the influence of sun and light on the plant that could cause it ...
Louis Pasteur
... on July 6 , 1885 after the boy was badly mauled by a rabid dog. This was done at some personal risk for Pasteur, since he was not a licensed
physician and could have faced prosecution for treating the boy. Fortunately, the treatment proved to be a spectacular success, with Meister avoiding the ...
Malpighian corpuscle
... the white pulp of the spleen , containing many lymphocytes
These structures are named after Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694), an Italian
physician and biologist regarded as the father of microscopical anatomy and histology .
...
Magnetic resonance imaging
... type of information about the subject tissues. This information is then synthesized by the interpreting radiologist into a report for the clinical
physician treating the patient.
Safety
The presence of a ferromagnetic foreign body (such as shell fragments) in the subject, or a metallic implant ...
Oswald Avery
... Oswald Theodore Avery ( 1877 - 1955 ) was a
physician , medical researcher and early molecular biologist . He was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia , but the major part of his career was spent in the ...
Photosynthesis
... He then showed that the air that had been "injured" by the candle and the mouse could be restored by a plant.
In 1778 , Jan Ingenhousz , court
physician to the Austrian Empress, repeated Priestley's experiments. He discovered that it was the influence of sun and light on the plant that could cause it ...
Zoology
... period of the Middle Ages is connected with the name of an Englishman , Edward Edward Wotton , born at Oxford in 1492 , who practised as a
physician in London and died in 1555 . He published a treatise De differentiis animalium at Paris in 1552 . In many respects Wotton was simply an ...