Meet Virginia Apgar, the unlikely anesthesiologist who saved newborn babies
Read now →Apgar's simple, standardized score helped decrease the startlingly high infant mortality rate
Meet Betty Hay, the scientist who saw how cells grow and limbs regenerate
Read now →Happy birthday to the trailblazing developmental biologist
Meet Maria Sibylla Merian, the naturalist who painted insects in living color
Read now →One of the first to recognize insect metamorphosis, she's finally getting her dues after 300 years of obscurity
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Meet Nobel Prize winner Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, who let doctors see into your blood
Read now →Her radioimmunoassay technique enabled scientists to measure hundreds of trace biological substances for the first time
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Meet Ada Lovelace, the world’s first computer programmer
Read now →A "prophet of the computer age," she saw the potential for computers outside of pure mathematics
Three times Louise Slaughter used her microbiology training in Congress
Read now →The lawmaker, the only microbiologist in Congress, pushed for public health reform
