Human Embryology Research Lab

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Research

Since 1986, A/Prof Freeman's studies have concentrated on early aspects of human development, with particular emphasis on the Biomechanics of Early Human Development (i.e., human movement analysis applied to embryos and fetuses) as related to adult structure and function. Study leave has enabled him to examine human embryos catalogued in large museum collections in USA, Sweden, Germany, and The Netherlands. He has been a Humboldt Fellow in the Anatomy Institute, University of Göttingen (1990), Visiting Professor in the Department of Histology & Embryology, University of Leiden (1990), and Visiting Professor in the Institute of Cell Biology & Morphology, University of Lausanne, (1998).

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Recent Publications

Book

Blechschmidt, Erich. The Ontogenetic Basis of Human Anatomy. A Biodynamic Approach to Development from Conception to Birth. Edited and translated by B. Freeman. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2004.

Articles

Reading, B. & Freeman, B: Simple formula for the surface area of the body and a simple model for anthropometry. Clinical Anatomy 18 (2005) 126–130. (88k pdf)
The Reading-Freeman formula for body surface area has been developed in Section 2: Body Dimensions & Blood Volumes on The Medical Algorithms Project website at: http://www.medal.org/visitor/login.aspx

Loo CKC, Freeman B, Quinton A, Yong J and Killingsworth M: The significance of cerebral mantle thickness in fetal ventriculomegaly at autopsy. Pathology 36 (2004), 247-253.

Freeman, B: The active migration of germ cells in the embryos of mice and men is a myth (Review). Reproduction 125 (2003) 635-643. (124k pdf)

Edwards MJ, Smith MSR, and Freeman B: Measurement of the linear dynamics of the descent of the bovine fetal testis. Journal of anatomy 203 (2003) 133-142. (139k pdf)

Freeman, B: The how and why of the eye. Direction 2 (1999) 10-16. (235K pdf file, text only)

Loo CKC, Freeman B, Stanford D and Gune S: Cytologic findings in a fetal intracranial teratoma. Acta Cytologica 45 (2001), 227-232.

Loo CKC, Freeman B, Stanford D: CNS findings in iniencephaly: case report and literature review. Pathology 33 (2001) 112-115.

Abstracts (Lectures, posters, letters, etc.)

Freeman, B: ‘Pneumatization’ and the formation of air sinuses in human development. Lecture, Sydney, August 2007.

Freeman, B: Facing Facts – Development and Anatomy. OMAX 2005 (Australian & New Zealand Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons, National Meeting, Melbourne, October 2005)

Freeman, B: Embryonic germ cells do not ‘migrate’ – the embryo simply grows around them. Mechanisms of Development 122, Suppl 1: S109–S110 (Abstracts of the 15th International Society of Developmental Biologists Congress 2005, Sydney).

Freeman, B: Conceptus and embryo: early human development revisited. Australian Birth Defects Society Annual Scientific Meeting, Melbourne, April 2005.

Freeman, B: Haeckel's forgeries. American Biology Teacher 63 (2001) 230.

Freeman, B: Human "branchial" whatevers: perpetuating Haeckel's forgeries. Australian Birth Defects Society Annual Scientific Meeting, Sydney, December 2000.

Freeman, B: Human germ cells do not have to migrate in embryonic development. Australian Birth Defects Society Annual Scientific Meeting, Sydney, December 2000.

Loo CKC & Freeman B: Liver cysts in Meckel-Gruber syndrome. International Academy of Pathology Congress, Sydney, June 2000.

Loo CKC, Freeman B, Sindler, P & Worthington S: Cerebral mantle thickness in second trimester fetuses: correlation with ventriculomegaly. International Academy of Pathology Congress, Sydney, June 2000.

Freeman, B: Prenatal development of the face and airway. 6th World Congress on Sleep Apnea, Sydney, March 2000.

Stanford D, Loo CKC and Freeman B: Intracranial fetal teratoma: a case report. International Academy of Pathology Congress, Sydney, June 1999.

Loo CKC, Freeman B and Stanford D: CNS findings in iniencephaly: case report and literature review. International Academy of Pathology Congress, Sydney, June 1999.

Freeman, B: The Human Embryo's Use of Its Self. In Sydney Congress Papers (4th International Alexander Congress), ed. D Garlick, Direction Press, Sydney, 1996, pp 63-65.

Freeman, B: Newborn stepping and embryonic growth-stepping. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 30 (1988) 127-128.

Freeman, B: (Haeckel's Law) Naturwissenschaften 74 (1987) 348.