linkedin post 2016-10-15 05:42:25

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CREATING THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE. "Loeb showed scientists how to induce artificial parthenogenesis, thus refuting the idea that spermatozoa alone were necessary to develop eggs into embryos and confirming the idea that the chemical constitution of embryos’ environment affected their development. Furthermore, Loeb’s work showed that scientists could manipulate materials in a laboratory to create, as he called the process, the beginning stages of life." https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/jacques-loeb-1859-1924 View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2016-10-15 05:39:00

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BIRTH OF EMBRYOLOGY. "Jacques Loeb (1859-1924) experimented on embryos in Europe and the United States at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Among the first to study embryos through experimentation, Loeb helped found the new field of experimental embryology." https://lnkd.in/e74zn8H View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2016-10-15 05:32:23

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FRAGMENT FROM NATURE focuses on the first demonstration of artificial parthenogenesis and the firestorm it created. Pathenogenesis is a type of natural asexual reproduction in which the offspring develops from unfertilized eggs, effectively an immaculate conception. This is a story of an eccentric scientist who was launched into the public limelight by his provocative work. View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2016-10-14 04:42:10

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ENRICHED HOUSEKEEPING GENES. "In general, single-copy genes are enriched for essential housekeeping functions and include genes targeted to the chloroplast and those involved in DNA repair and replication; they also are more highly and broadly expressed than are those retained in duplicate." http://www.amjbot.org/content/early/2015/10/09/ajb.1500320 View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2016-10-16 05:49:55

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QUAINT COMMENT. "Loeb supposedly responded to the criticism that he had not excluded all sperm in his first experiments by earnestly assuring the "gentlemen" that he had filtered and sterilized the seawater, and "in wiping out the dishes used only ladies' handkerchiefs." https://lnkd.in/eQf5Evv View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2016-10-15 06:30:20

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CREATION OF LIFE. "In late 1899, a number of newspapers reported Loeb's first announcement of artificial parthenogenesis. The headline in the Boston Herald was typical: "Creation of Life. Startling Discovery of Prof. Loeb. Lower Animals Produced by Chemical Means. Process May Apply to Human Species. Immaculate Conception Explained. Wonderful Experiments Conducted at Woods Hole." Loeb rapidly moved from being a professor known only in narrow academic circles to a major scientist and eminent, even notorious, public figure." https://lnkd.in/eQf5Evv View in LinkedIn
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